CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1971-0160
COSMOS 252 DEB
COSMOS 252 DEB (NORAD 3979) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 July 1971.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3979
International designator
1968-097BV
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
1 Nov 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Jul 1971UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 8 months973 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
Also ended on 2 Jul 1971
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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