CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0080
COSMOS 1216 DEB
COSMOS 1216 DEB (NORAD 12044) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 March 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
12044
International designator
1980-084G
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Oct 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Mar 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 months137 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
From the same launch
1980-084
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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