CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0046
COSMOS 1789 DEB
COSMOS 1789 DEB (NORAD 17077) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 February 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
17077
International designator
1986-084H
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
31 Oct 1986Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Feb 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
3 months113 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 82.5°
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 82.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1789 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1986-084
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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