CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2002-0359
METEOR 1-2
METEOR 1-2 (NORAD 4119) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 August 2002, after 32 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4119
International designator
1969-084A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
6 Oct 1969Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Aug 2002UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
32 years, 10 months12,006 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,280 kg
Operator
TsUKOS / GMS
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor
Programme
Meteor C
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
32 years, 10 monthsMETEOR 1-2’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 20 Aug 2002
1 entryFrom the same launch
1969-084
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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