CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0002
COSMOS 252 DEB
COSMOS 252 DEB (NORAD 3897) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 January 1980.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3897
International designator
1968-097BJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
1 Nov 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Jan 1980UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 2 Jan 1982
Time since launch
11 years, 2 months4,079 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 2 Jan 1980
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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