CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2004-0123
COSMOS 1030
COSMOS 1030 (NORAD 11015) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 August 2004, after 25 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11015
International designator
1978-083A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
6 Sep 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Aug 2004UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
25 years, 11 months9,477 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.6°N to 61.6°SFinal inclination 61.6°
Mass
1,250 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Lavochkin / Kometa
Bus
Oko
Programme
Oko B
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 61.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.6°N and 61.6°S.
Life in orbit
25 years, 11 monthsCOSMOS 1030’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1978-083
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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