CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0076
COSMOS 860 DEB
COSMOS 860 DEB (NORAD 19297) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 April 1998.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
19297
International designator
1976-103F
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
17 Oct 1976Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Apr 1998UTC calendar day
Time since launch
21 years, 5 months7,837 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.7°N to 64.7°SFinal inclination 64.7°
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 64.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.7°N and 64.7°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 860 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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