CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0397
COSMOS 1176 DEB (PELPS)
COSMOS 1176 DEB (PELPS) (NORAD 11968) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 October 1980.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
11968
International designator
1980-034B
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
29 Apr 1980Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Oct 1980UTC calendar day
Time since launch
5 months158 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.0°N to 65.0°SFinal inclination 65.0°
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 65.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.0°N and 65.0°S.
Life in orbit
Also ended on 4 Oct 1980
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1980-0397
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