CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0084
COSMOS 2106
COSMOS 2106 (NORAD 20966) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 7 April 2000, after 9 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
20966
International designator
1990-104A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Nov 1990Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
7 Apr 2000UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
9 years, 4 months3,418 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 82.5°
Mass
1,450 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Kol'tso
Programme
Koltso
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 82.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
9 years, 4 monthsCOSMOS 2106’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 7 Apr 2000
1 entryFrom the same launch
1990-1041991-0079Kosmos-2106 SS 11991-0083Kosmos-2106 SS 21991-0105Kosmos-2106 SS 31991-0112Kosmos-2106 SS 41991-0113Kosmos-2106 SS 61991-0115Kosmos-2106 SS 51991-0270Kosmos-2106 SS 81991-0271Kosmos-2106 SS 91991-0272Kosmos-2106 SS 101991-0279Kosmos-2106 SS 121991-0281Kosmos-2106 SS 71991-0282Kosmos-2106 SS 16
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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