CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2024-1716
Cosmos 1408
Cosmos 1408 (NORAD 13552) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 October 2024, after 42 years, 1 month in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13552
International designator
1982-092A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
16 Sep 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Oct 2024UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
42 years, 1 month15,382 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 82.5°
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 82.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
42 years, 1 monthCosmos 1408’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Oct 2024
1 entryFragments of this object
1,802 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.