CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2013-0005
COSMOS 1109 DEB
COSMOS 1109 DEB (NORAD 38669) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 January 2013.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
38669
International designator
1979-058X
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
27 Jun 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Jan 2013UTC calendar day
Time since launch
33 years, 6 months12,247 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 6 Jan 2013
1 entryFrom the same launch
1979-058
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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