CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2002-0012
COSMOS 1206
COSMOS 1206 (NORAD 11932) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 January 2002, after 21 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11932
International designator
1980-069A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
15 Aug 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Jan 2002UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 13 Jan 2002
Time in orbit
21 years, 4 months7,822 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
21 years, 4 monthsCOSMOS 1206’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 14 Jan 2002
1 entryFrom the same launch
1980-069
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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