CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0264
COSMOS 252 DEB
COSMOS 252 DEB (NORAD 5873) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 June 1979.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5873
International designator
1968-097DM
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
1 Nov 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Jun 1979UTC calendar day
Time since launch
10 years, 7 months3,879 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 252 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 16 Jun 1979
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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