CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0115
COSMOS 1623 DEB
COSMOS 1623 DEB (NORAD 15499) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 March 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
15499
International designator
1985-005D
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Jan 1985Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Mar 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 2 months804 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
70.0°N to 70.0°SFinal inclination 70.0°
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 70.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 70.0°N and 70.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1623 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1985-005
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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