CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1985-0348
COSMOS 1542 DEB
COSMOS 1542 DEB (NORAD 14848) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 October 1985.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
14848
International designator
1984-025D
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
7 Mar 1984Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Oct 1985UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 7 months585 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
70.3°N to 70.3°SFinal inclination 70.3°
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 70.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 70.3°N and 70.3°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1542 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1984-025
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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