CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2014-0546
COSMOS 1939
COSMOS 1939 (NORAD 19045) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 October 2014, after 26 years, 6 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
19045
International designator
1988-032A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
20 Apr 1988Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Oct 2014UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
26 years, 6 months9,688 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.8°N to 82.8°SFinal inclination 97.2°
Mass
1,900 kg
Operator
Priroda
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Resurs-O
Programme
Resurs-O1
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 97.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.8°N and 82.8°S.
Life in orbit
26 years, 6 monthsCOSMOS 1939’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 29 Oct 2014
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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