CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2005-0016
COSMOS 2332
COSMOS 2332 (NORAD 23853) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 January 2005, after 8 years, 9 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
23853
International designator
1996-025A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
24 Apr 1996Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Jan 2005Recorded time 18:05 UTC
Time in orbit
8 years, 9 months3,201 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.9°N to 82.9°SFinal inclination 82.9°
Mass
750 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
YUZHUA?
Bus
Taifun-1B?
Programme
Yug
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 82.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.9°N and 82.9°S.
Life in orbit
8 years, 9 monthsCOSMOS 2332’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1996-025
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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