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Entry no.
2011-0449

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 37517) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 3 December 2011.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
37517
International designator
1993-036BMW
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Dec 2011UTC calendar day
Time since launch
18 years, 5 months6,744 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—

Where it came down

Not on record

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.

Life in orbit

COSMOS 2251 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 3 Dec 2011

5 entries
2011-0444SL-18 DEB2011-0445FENGYUN 1C DEB2011-0446COSMOS 2251 DEB2011-0447FENGYUN 1C DEB2011-0448FENGYUN 1C DEB

Part of a break-up

1,101 on record
1,101One of 1,101 fragments of Cosmos 2251 on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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