CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0131
COSMOS 1826 DEB
COSMOS 1826 DEB (NORAD 17791) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 April 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
17791
International designator
1987-025M
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
11 Mar 1987Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Apr 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 month38 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
72.4°N to 72.4°SFinal inclination 72.4°
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 72.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 72.4°N and 72.4°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1826 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1987-025
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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