CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-0190
COSMOS 1378
COSMOS 1378 (NORAD 13271) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 January 2025 over the South Pacific Ocean, after 42 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
13271
International designator
1982-059A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
10 Jun 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Jan 2025Recorded time 05:56 UTC
Time in orbit
42 years, 7 months15,568 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.4°N to 82.4°SFinal inclination 82.4°
Mass
1,750 kg
Operator
GRU
Built by
Southern SDB
Bus
Tselina-D
Programme
Tselina-D
Where it came down
Recorded positionRecorded position 10.0°S, 115.0°W at 05:56 UTC. Its final orbit, inclined at 82.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.4°N and 82.4°S.
Life in orbit
42 years, 7 monthsCOSMOS 1378’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 23 Jan 2025
2 entries
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/2025-0190
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.