CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2021-0118
COSMOS 2525
COSMOS 2525 (NORAD 43243) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 April 2021, after 3 years in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
43243
International designator
2018-028A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
Russia
Launched
29 Mar 2018Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
1 Apr 2021UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
3 years1,099 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.6°N to 83.6°SFinal inclination 96.4°
Mass
520 kg
Operator
MO RF
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
EMKA
Programme
EMKA
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 96.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.6°N and 83.6°S.
Life in orbit
3 yearsCOSMOS 2525’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
2018-028
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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