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Entry no.
2022-0330

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 34970) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 February 2022.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
34970
International designator
1993-036AEZ
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Feb 2022UTC calendar day
Time since launch
28 years, 8 months10,477 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°

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 74.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.0°N and 74.0°S.

Life in orbit

COSMOS 2251 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 21 Feb 2022

9 entries
2022-0331WORLDVIEW 2 DEB2022-0332FALCON 9 DEB2022-0333COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0334COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0335COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0336COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0337COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0338COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0339COSMOS 1408 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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