CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2001-0017
COSMOS 1689
COSMOS 1689 (NORAD 16110) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 January 2001, after 15 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
16110
International designator
1985-090A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
3 Oct 1985Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Jan 2001UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
15 years, 3 months5,582 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.4°N to 82.4°SFinal inclination 97.6°
Mass
1,900 kg
Operator
Priroda
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Resurs-O
Programme
Resurs-O1
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 97.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.4°N and 82.4°S.
Life in orbit
15 years, 3 monthsCOSMOS 1689’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 14 Jan 2001
1 entryFrom the same launch
1985-090
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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