CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0061
COSMOS 1889 DEB
COSMOS 1889 DEB (NORAD 18437) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 January 1988.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18437
International designator
1987-085D
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
9 Oct 1987Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Jan 1988UTC calendar day
Time since launch
3 months114 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 1889 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1987-085
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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