CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0266
COSMOS 1518
COSMOS 1518 (NORAD 14587) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 September 1998, after 14 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
14587
International designator
1983-126A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Dec 1983Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Sep 1998UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
14 years, 8 months5,379 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.3°N to 62.3°SFinal inclination 62.3°
Mass
1,250 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Lavochkin / Kometa
Bus
Oko
Programme
Oko E
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 62.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.3°N and 62.3°S.
Life in orbit
14 years, 8 monthsCOSMOS 1518’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 19 Sep 1998
1 entryFrom the same launch
1983-126
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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