CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1995-0167
COSMOS 2305
COSMOS 2305 (NORAD 23453) was deorbited in a controlled re-entry on 18 December 1995, after 11 months in orbit.
Controlled re-entryOfficial date
NORAD number
23453
International designator
1994-088A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
29 Dec 1994Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Dec 1995UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
11 months354 days
How it ended
Deorbited (controlled re-entry)
Latitude range
64.9°N to 64.9°SFinal inclination 64.9°
Mass
3,790 kg
Operator
VKS
Built by
TsSKB
Bus
Yantar'-4KS1
Programme
Neman
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 64.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.9°N and 64.9°S.
Life in orbit
11 monthsCOSMOS 2305’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1994-088
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1995-0167
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1995-0167
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.