CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1977-0093
COSMOS 861 DEB (PELPS)
COSMOS 861 DEB (PELPS) (NORAD 9631) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 February 1977.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
9631
International designator
1976-104C
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
21 Oct 1976Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Feb 1977UTC calendar day
Time since launch
3 months106 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.9°N to 64.9°SFinal inclination 64.9°
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 64.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.9°N and 64.9°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 861 DEB (PELPS)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 4 Feb 1977
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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