CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1999-0343
ZEYA
ZEYA (NORAD 24744) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 October 1999, after 2 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
24744
International designator
1997-010A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
4 Mar 1997Svobodny
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Oct 1999UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
2 years, 7 months965 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.8°N to 82.8°SFinal inclination 97.2°
Mass
87 kg
Operator
VKS
Built by
NPO PM
Bus
Strela-1M
Programme
Radio RS
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 97.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.8°N and 82.8°S.
Life in orbit
2 years, 7 monthsZEYA’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 25 Oct 1999
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1997-010
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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