CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1975-0203
COSMOS 686 DEB
COSMOS 686 DEB (NORAD 7453) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 5 July 1975.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
7453
International designator
1974-074G
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
26 Sep 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
5 Jul 1975UTC calendar day
Time since launch
9 months282 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
71.2°N to 71.2°SFinal inclination 71.2°
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 71.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 71.2°N and 71.2°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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