CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0304
COSMOS 252 DEB *
COSMOS 252 DEB * (NORAD 5870) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 June 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5870
International designator
1968-097DJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
1 Nov 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Jun 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
12 years, 7 months4,614 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.
Came down with COSMOS 252 DEB *
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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