CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2012-0114
METEOR 1-1
METEOR 1-1 (NORAD 3835) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 March 2012, after 43 years in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
3835
International designator
1969-029A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
26 Mar 1969Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Mar 2012UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
43 years15,706 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.1°N to 81.1°SFinal inclination 81.1°
Mass
1,280 kg
Operator
TsUKOS / 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 81.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.1°N and 81.1°S.
Life in orbit
43 yearsMETEOR 1-1’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Mar 2012
1 entryFrom the same launch
1969-029
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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