CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0261
COSMOS 1628 DEB
COSMOS 1628 DEB (NORAD 15569) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 14 July 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
15569
International designator
1985-012D
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
6 Feb 1985Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
14 Jul 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 5 months888 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
72.8°N to 72.8°SFinal inclination 72.8°
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 72.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 72.8°N and 72.8°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1628 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1985-012
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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