CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1977-0496
COSMOS 838 DEB
COSMOS 838 DEB (NORAD 10055) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 December 1977.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
10055
International designator
1976-063L
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
2 Jul 1976Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Dec 1977UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 5 months518 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.0°N to 65.0°SFinal inclination 65.0°
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 65.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.0°N and 65.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 838 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1976-063
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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