CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1975-0068
COSMOS 686 DEB
COSMOS 686 DEB (NORAD 7449) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 March 1975.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
7449
International designator
1974-074C
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
26 Sep 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Mar 1975UTC calendar day
Time since launch
5 months174 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
71.0°N to 71.0°SFinal inclination 71.0°
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 71.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 71.0°N and 71.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 686 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1974-074
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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