CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1999-0431
COSMOS 1461 DEB
COSMOS 1461 DEB (NORAD 15707) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 December 1999.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
15707
International designator
1983-044AA
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
7 May 1983Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Dec 1999UTC calendar day
Time since launch
16 years, 7 months6,078 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 allowedExact 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 1461 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Dec 1999
1 entryFrom the same launch
1983-044Part of a fragment group
189 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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