CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1989-0216
COSMOS 1275 DEB
COSMOS 1275 DEB (NORAD 18516) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 February 1989.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18516
International designator
1981-053LT
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
4 Jun 1981Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Feb 1989UTC calendar day
Time since launch
7 years, 8 months2,824 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.0°N to 83.0°SFinal inclination 83.0°
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 83.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.0°N and 83.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1275 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Feb 1989
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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