CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1997-0123
ELEKTRON 2
ELEKTRON 2 (NORAD 748) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 April 1997, after 33 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
748
International designator
1964-006B
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
30 Jan 1964Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Apr 1997UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 22 Apr 1997
Time in orbit
33 years, 2 months12,134 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
56.7°N to 56.7°SFinal inclination 56.7°
Mass
460 kg
Operator
OKB-1
Built by
OKB-1
Bus
Object D
Programme
ObjectD
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 56.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 56.7°N and 56.7°S.
Life in orbit
33 years, 2 monthsELEKTRON 2’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1964-006
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1997-0123
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1997-0123
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.