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Entry no.
2015-0021

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 38209) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 January 2015.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
38209
International designator
1993-036BSZ
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Jan 2015UTC calendar day
Time since launch
21 years, 6 months7,881 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 13 Jan 2015

3 entries
2015-0023FALCON 9 R/B2015-0020FENGYUN 1C DEB2015-0022YAOGAN 6 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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