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Entry no.
1990-0231

COSMOS 1461 DEB

COSMOS 1461 DEB (NORAD 15731) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 April 1990.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
15731
International designator
1983-044AY
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
7 May 1983Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Apr 1990UTC calendar day
Time since launch
6 years, 11 months2,549 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.9°N to 64.9°SFinal inclination 64.9°

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 64.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.9°N and 64.9°S.

Life in orbit

COSMOS 1461 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 29 Apr 1990

4 entries
1990-0232STS 311990-0233COSMOS 2073 DEB1990-0234COSMOS 2073 DEB1990-0235COSMOS 2073 DEB

From the same launch

1983-044
1983-0182SL-11 R/B

Part of a fragment group

189 on record
189One of 189 fragments of Cosmos 1461 on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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