CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2017-0194
COSMOS 1346
COSMOS 1346 (NORAD 13120) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 December 2017, after 35 years, 8 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13120
International designator
1982-027A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
31 Mar 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Dec 2017UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
35 years, 8 months13,045 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
35 years, 8 monthsCOSMOS 1346’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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