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2020-0205

COSMOS 1461 DEB

COSMOS 1461 DEB (NORAD 42446) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 September 2020.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
42446
International designator
1983-044GG
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
7 May 1983Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Sep 2020UTC calendar day
Time since launch
37 years, 4 months13,646 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.0°N to 65.0°SFinal inclination 65.0°

Where it came down

Latitude band its orbit allowed
Exact position not recorded

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 65.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.0°N and 65.0°S.

Life in orbit

COSMOS 1461 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 15 Sep 2020

3 entries
2020-0206STARLINK-362020-0207STARLINK-542020-0208FALCON 9 DEB

From the same launch

1983-044
1983-0182SL-11 R/B

Part of a fragment group

189 on record
189One of 189 fragments of Cosmos 1461 on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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