CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Orbital Register seal
Entry no.
1989-0724

COSMOS 1220 DEB

COSMOS 1220 DEB (NORAD 17655) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 12 August 1989.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
17655
International designator
1980-089BY
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
4 Nov 1980Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
12 Aug 1989UTC calendar day
Time since launch
8 years, 9 months3,203 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 allowed
Exact 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 1220 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 12 Aug 1989

4 entries
1989-0727SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)1989-0725DELTA 1 DEB1989-0726COSMOS 1275 DEB1989-0728RESURS F-3 DEB

From the same launch

1980-089
1980-0475SL-11 R/B2014-0066COSMOS 1220
Orbital Register seal
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1989-0724
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.