CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0156
COSMOS 1005
COSMOS 1005 (NORAD 10860) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 June 2000, after 22 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10860
International designator
1978-045A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
12 May 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Jun 2000UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 15 Jun 2000
Time in orbit
22 years, 1 month8,069 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
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 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
22 years, 1 monthCOSMOS 1005’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1978-045
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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