CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2009-0278
COSMOS 1461 DEB
COSMOS 1461 DEB (NORAD 29351) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 November 2009.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
29351
International designator
1983-044FU
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
7 May 1983Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Nov 2009UTC calendar day
Time since launch
26 years, 6 months9,698 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.9°N to 64.9°SFinal inclination 64.9°
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 64.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.9°N and 64.9°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1461 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From 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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