CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1999-0011
METEOR 1-6
METEOR 1-6 (NORAD 4583) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 January 1999, after 28 years, 2 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4583
International designator
1970-085A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
15 Oct 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jan 1999UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
28 years, 2 months10,312 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,280 kg
Operator
GUKOS RVSN / GMS
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor
Programme
Meteor C
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
28 years, 2 monthsMETEOR 1-6’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Jan 1999
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1970-085
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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