CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2002-0398
INTERCOSMOS 19
INTERCOSMOS 19 (NORAD 11285) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 September 2002, after 23 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11285
International designator
1979-020A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Feb 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Sep 2002UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
23 years, 6 months8,609 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.9°N to 73.9°SFinal inclination 73.9°
Mass
1,042 kg
Operator
IK
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
AUOS
Programme
AUOS
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 73.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.9°N and 73.9°S.
Life in orbit
23 years, 6 monthsINTERCOSMOS 19’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 23 Sep 2002
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-020
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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