CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0130
COSMOS 1804 DEB
COSMOS 1804 DEB (NORAD 17246) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 April 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
17246
International designator
1986-095F
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
4 Dec 1986Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Apr 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 months132 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 1804 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1986-095
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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