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2016-0194

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 37338) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 September 2016.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
37338
International designator
1993-036BLE
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Sep 2016UTC calendar day
Time since launch
23 years, 3 months8,494 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 17 Sep 2016

2 entries
2016-0192IRIDIUM 33 DEB2016-0193FENGYUN 1C 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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