CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2001-0244
COSMOS 975
COSMOS 975 (NORAD 10561) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 September 2001, after 23 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10561
International designator
1978-004A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
10 Jan 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Sep 2001UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
23 years, 8 months8,653 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
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 81.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.1°N and 81.1°S.
Life in orbit
23 years, 8 monthsCOSMOS 975’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1978-004
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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