CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0534
COSMOS 1659 DEB
COSMOS 1659 DEB (NORAD 15868) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 November 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
15868
International designator
1985-046E
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
13 Jun 1985Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Nov 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 4 months881 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
72.9°N to 72.9°SFinal inclination 72.9°
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 72.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 72.9°N and 72.9°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1659 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1985-046
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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