CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0243
COSMOS 955
COSMOS 955 (NORAD 10362) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 September 2000, after 22 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10362
International designator
1977-091A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Sep 1977Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Sep 2000UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 7 Sep 2000
Time in orbit
22 years, 11 months8,389 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, 11 monthsCOSMOS 955’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 8 Sep 2000
1 entryFrom the same launch
1977-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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