CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2013-0168
COSMOS 1188
COSMOS 1188 (NORAD 11844) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 May 2013, after 32 years, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11844
International designator
1980-050A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
14 Jun 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 May 2013UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
32 years, 11 months12,032 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.1°N to 62.1°SFinal inclination 62.1°
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 62.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.1°N and 62.1°S.
Life in orbit
32 years, 11 monthsCOSMOS 1188’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1980-050
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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