CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2012-0176
COSMOS 1109 DEB
COSMOS 1109 DEB (NORAD 13960) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 May 2012.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
13960
International designator
1979-058H
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
27 Jun 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 May 2012UTC calendar day
Time since launch
32 years, 10 months12,011 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.0°N to 63.0°SFinal inclination 63.0°
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 63.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.0°N and 63.0°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1109 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 15 May 2012
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-058
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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