CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2000-0394
COSMOS 397 DEB
COSMOS 397 DEB (NORAD 15538) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 December 2000.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
15538
International designator
1971-015CV
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
25 Feb 1971Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Dec 2000UTC calendar day
Time since launch
29 years, 10 months10,898 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.6°N to 65.6°SFinal inclination 65.6°
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 65.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.6°N and 65.6°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 397 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1971-015
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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