CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0884
COSMOS 1260 DEB
COSMOS 1260 DEB (NORAD 18542) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 12 December 1988.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18542
International designator
1981-028BW
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Mar 1981Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
12 Dec 1988UTC calendar day
Time since launch
7 years, 8 months2,824 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.0°N to 64.0°SFinal inclination 64.0°
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 64.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.0°N and 64.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1260 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 12 Dec 1988
1 entryFrom the same launch
1981-028
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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