CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2005-0066
METEOR 1-7
METEOR 1-7 (NORAD 4849) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 June 2005, after 34 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
4849
International designator
1971-003A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Jan 1971Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Jun 2005UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
34 years, 4 months12,564 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
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 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
34 years, 4 monthsMETEOR 1-7’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1971-003
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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