CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2002-0093
COSMOS 1143
COSMOS 1143 (NORAD 11600) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 February 2002, after 22 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11600
International designator
1979-093A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
26 Oct 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Feb 2002UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
22 years, 3 months8,150 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, 3 monthsCOSMOS 1143’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 17 Feb 2002
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1979-093
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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