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Entry no.
2022-0121

COSMOS 1408 DEB

COSMOS 1408 DEB (NORAD 50282) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 January 2022.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
50282
International designator
1982-092YX
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Sep 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Jan 2022UTC calendar day
Time since launch
39 years, 4 months14,372 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.8°N to 81.8°SFinal inclination 81.8°

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 81.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.8°N and 81.8°S.

Life in orbit

COSMOS 1408 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 21 Jan 2022

8 entries
2022-0117STARLINK-12042022-0115IRIDIUM 33 DEB2022-0116BREEZE-M DEB2022-0118FREGAT DEB2022-0119FREGAT DEB2022-0120COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0122FALCON 9 DEB2022-0123FALCON 9 DEB

From the same launch

1982-092
2024-1716Cosmos 1408

Part of a break-up

1,802 on record
1,802One of 1,802 fragments of Cosmos 1408 on record →
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