CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1973-0510
COSMOS 554 DEB
COSMOS 554 DEB (NORAD 6471) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 November 1973.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6471
International designator
1973-021AE
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
19 Apr 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Nov 1973UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 29 Nov 1973
Time since launch
7 months222 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
72.7°N to 72.7°SFinal inclination 72.7°
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 72.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 72.7°N and 72.7°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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