CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0910
COSMOS 1461 DEB
COSMOS 1461 DEB (NORAD 18237) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 December 1988.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18237
International designator
1983-044DY
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
7 May 1983Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Dec 1988UTC calendar day
Time since launch
5 years, 7 months2,055 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.0°N to 65.0°SFinal inclination 65.0°
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 65.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.0°N and 65.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1461 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 21 Dec 1988
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1983-044Part of a fragment group
189 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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