CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2013-0283
COSMOS 1217 DEB
COSMOS 1217 DEB (NORAD 32997) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 August 2013.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
32997
International designator
1980-085L
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
24 Oct 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Aug 2013UTC calendar day
Time since launch
32 years, 10 months11,994 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.7°N to 62.7°SFinal inclination 62.7°
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 62.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.7°N and 62.7°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 1217 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1980-085
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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