CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2007-0041
COSMOS 1025
COSMOS 1025 (NORAD 10973) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 10 March 2007, after 28 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10973
International designator
1978-067A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Jun 1978Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
10 Mar 2007UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
28 years, 8 months10,482 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.4°N to 82.4°SFinal inclination 82.4°
Mass
1,700 kg
Operator
Southern SDB
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
GVM
Programme
Tselina-D
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 82.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.4°N and 82.4°S.
Life in orbit
28 years, 8 monthsCOSMOS 1025’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 10 Mar 2007
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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