CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-1446
COSMOS 1455
COSMOS 1455 (NORAD 14032) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 September 2025 over the South Pacific Ocean, after 42 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
14032
International designator
1983-037A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
23 Apr 1983Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Sep 2025Recorded time 04:50 UTC
Time in orbit
42 years, 4 months15,475 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
Recorded positionRecorded position 41.0°S, 105.0°W at 04:50 UTC. 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, 4 monthsCOSMOS 1455’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 4 Sep 2025
4 entries
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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