CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2003-0253
COSMOS 389
COSMOS 389 (NORAD 4813) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 November 2003, after 32 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4813
International designator
1970-113A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
18 Dec 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Nov 2003UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
32 years, 11 months12,029 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
TsNII-108
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-D
Programme
Tselina-D1
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, 11 monthsCOSMOS 389’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 24 Nov 2003
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1970-113
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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