CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Orbital Register seal
Entry no.
1984-0429

COSMOS 252 DEB

COSMOS 252 DEB (NORAD 5279) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 September 1984.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5279
International designator
1968-097CQ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
1 Nov 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Sep 1984UTC calendar day
Time since launch
15 years, 10 months5,806 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—

Where it came down

Not on record

No 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.

Also ended on 24 Sep 1984

1 entry
1984-0428WESTFORD NEEDLES
Orbital Register seal
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1984-0429
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.