CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2011-0127
COSMOS 1222
COSMOS 1222 (NORAD 12071) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 April 2011, after 30 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
12071
International designator
1980-093A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
21 Nov 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Apr 2011UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
30 years, 5 months11,114 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
GRU
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-D
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 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
30 years, 5 monthsCOSMOS 1222’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Apr 2011
1 entryFrom the same launch
1980-093
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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