CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0361
COSMOS 397 DEB
COSMOS 397 DEB (NORAD 6043) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 July 1979.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6043
International designator
1971-015CG
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
25 Feb 1971Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Jul 1979UTC calendar day
Time since launch
8 years, 5 months3,078 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 397 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 31 Jul 1979
1 entryFrom the same launch
1971-015
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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