CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1991-0019
COSMOS 1823 DEB
COSMOS 1823 DEB (NORAD 20020) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 January 1991.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
20020
International designator
1987-020DA
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Feb 1987Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Jan 1991UTC calendar day
Time since launch
3 years, 10 months1,427 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.3°N to 73.3°SFinal inclination 73.3°
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 73.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.3°N and 73.3°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1823 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 17 Jan 1991
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/1991-0019
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