CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2012-0111
COSMOS 2251 DEB
COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 34915) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 March 2012.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
34915
International designator
1993-036ADL
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Mar 2012UTC calendar day
Time since launch
18 years, 9 months6,855 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo 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 23 Mar 2012
2 entriesPart of a break-up
1,101 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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