CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1997-0372
COSMOS 1823 DEB
COSMOS 1823 DEB (NORAD 18738) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 December 1997.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18738
International designator
1987-020R
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Feb 1987Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Dec 1997UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 4 Dec 1997
Time since launch
10 years, 9 months3,942 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.5°N to 73.5°SFinal inclination 73.5°
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 73.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.5°N and 73.5°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1823 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 6 Dec 1997
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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