CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2019-0008
PROGNOZ 6
PROGNOZ 6 (NORAD 10370) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 January 2019 over the South Pacific Ocean, after 41 years, 3 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
10370
International designator
1977-093A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
22 Sep 1977Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Jan 2019Recorded time 11:44 UTC
Time in orbit
41 years, 3 months15,091 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
52.5°N to 52.5°SFinal inclination 52.5°
Mass
910 kg
Operator
IKI / Babakin
Built by
Lavochkin
Bus
SO-M
Programme
SO-M
Where it came down
Recorded positionRecorded position 37.1°S, 168.1°E at 11:44 UTC. Its final orbit, inclined at 52.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 52.5°N and 52.5°S.
Life in orbit
41 years, 3 monthsPROGNOZ 6’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1977-093
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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