CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0044
COSMOS 1043
COSMOS 1043 (NORAD 11055) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 February 1998, after 19 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11055
International designator
1978-094A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
10 Oct 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Feb 1998UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 27 Feb 1998
Time in orbit
19 years, 4 months7,081 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
GRU
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-D
Programme
Tselina-D
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 81.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.1°N and 81.1°S.
Life in orbit
19 years, 4 monthsCOSMOS 1043’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1978-094
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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