CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-1765
METEOR PRIRODA
METEOR PRIRODA (NORAD 12585) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 November 2025 over the Southern Ocean, after 44 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
12585
International designator
1981-065A
Object type
Spacecraft
Country
USSR
Launched
10 Jul 1981Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Nov 2025Recorded time 09:18 UTC
Time in orbit
44 years, 4 months16,204 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 97.5°
Mass
1,500 kg
Operator
Priroda
Built by
VNIIEM
Bus
Meteor-2
Programme
Meteor-Priroda
Where it came down
Recorded positionRecorded position 70.0°S, 10.0°W at 09:18 UTC. Its final orbit, inclined at 97.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
44 years, 4 monthsMETEOR PRIRODA’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 20 Nov 2025
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1981-065
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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