CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2015-0469
COSMOS 2251 DEB
COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 40222) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 December 2015.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
40222
International designator
1993-036BVB
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Dec 2015UTC calendar day
Time since launch
22 years, 5 months8,217 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 15 Dec 2015
2 entriesPart of a break-up
1,101 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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