CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2009-0163
COSMOS 1409
COSMOS 1409 (NORAD 13585) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 June 2009, after 26 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13585
International designator
1982-095A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Sep 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Jun 2009UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
26 years, 8 months9,756 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
60.6°N to 60.6°SFinal inclination 60.6°
Mass
1,250 kg
Operator
PVO
Built by
Lavochkin / Kometa
Bus
Oko
Programme
Oko 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 60.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 60.6°N and 60.6°S.
Life in orbit
26 years, 8 monthsCOSMOS 1409’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1982-095
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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