CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1973-0501
COSMOS 554 DEB
COSMOS 554 DEB (NORAD 6785) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 November 1973.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6785
International designator
1973-021HE
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
19 Apr 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Nov 1973UTC calendar day
Time since launch
6 months213 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.2°N to 73.2°SFinal inclination 73.2°
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 73.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.2°N and 73.2°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 554 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1973-021Part of a fragment group
194 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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