CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2004-0051
METEOR 1-4
METEOR 1-4 (NORAD 4393) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 March 2004, after 33 years, 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4393
International designator
1970-037A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Apr 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Mar 2004UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
33 years, 10 months12,376 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
GUKOS RVSN / 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
33 years, 10 monthsMETEOR 1-4’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1970-037
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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