CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0330
COSMOS 2306
COSMOS 2306 (NORAD 23501) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 October 2000, after 5 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
23501
International designator
1995-008A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
2 Mar 1995Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Oct 2000UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
5 years, 7 months2,069 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.8°N to 65.8°SFinal inclination 65.8°
Mass
1,045 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Romb
Programme
Taifun-2V
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 65.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.8°N and 65.8°S.
Life in orbit
5 years, 7 monthsCOSMOS 2306’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1995-008
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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