CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2002-0417
COSMOS 970 DEB
COSMOS 970 DEB (NORAD 20200) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 10 October 2002.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
20200
International designator
1977-121BX
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
21 Dec 1977Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
10 Oct 2002UTC calendar day
Time since launch
24 years, 9 months9,059 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 970 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1977-121
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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