CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0079
COSMOS 1138 DEB
COSMOS 1138 DEB (NORAD 11578) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 February 1980.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
11578
International designator
1979-085F
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
28 Sep 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Feb 1980UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 months151 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
72.8°N to 72.8°SFinal inclination 72.8°
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 72.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 72.8°N and 72.8°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1138 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Feb 1980
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-085
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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