CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1968-0013
COSMOS 176 DEB
COSMOS 176 DEB (NORAD 2979) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 January 1968.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
2979
International designator
1967-086K
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
12 Sep 1967Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Jan 1968UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 months123 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.0°N to 82.0°SFinal inclination 82.0°
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 82.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.0°N and 82.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 176 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1967-086
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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