CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0624
COSMOS 1277 DEB
COSMOS 1277 DEB (NORAD 12574) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 12 December 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
12574
International designator
1981-056J
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
17 Jun 1981Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
12 Dec 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
5 months178 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
70.4°N to 70.4°SFinal inclination 70.4°
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 70.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 70.4°N and 70.4°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1277 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1981-056
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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