CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0322
COSMOS 397 DEB
COSMOS 397 DEB (NORAD 5274) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 August 1980.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5274
International designator
1971-015BD
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
25 Feb 1971Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Aug 1980UTC calendar day
Time since launch
9 years, 5 months3,463 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 19 Aug 1980
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1971-015
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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