CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2009-0180
COSMOS 1247 DEB
COSMOS 1247 DEB (NORAD 12985) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 7 July 2009.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
12985
International designator
1981-016G
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
19 Feb 1981Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
7 Jul 2009UTC calendar day
Time since launch
28 years, 4 months10,365 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
61.4°N to 61.4°SFinal inclination 61.4°
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 61.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 61.4°N and 61.4°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1247 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1981-016
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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