CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0089
METEOR 1-4 DEB
METEOR 1-4 DEB (NORAD 5055) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 February 1979.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5055
International designator
1970-037C
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
28 Apr 1970Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Feb 1979UTC calendar day
Time since launch
8 years, 9 months3,226 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
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 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
METEOR 1-4 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Feb 1979
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1970-037
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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