CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0516
COSMOS 374 DEB
COSMOS 374 DEB (NORAD 5224) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 December 1978.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5224
International designator
1970-089BE
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
23 Oct 1970Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Dec 1978UTC calendar day
Time since launch
8 years, 1 month2,982 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 374 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Dec 1978
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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