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Entry no.
2022-0582

COSMOS 1408 DEB

COSMOS 1408 DEB (NORAD 50548) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 March 2022.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
50548
International designator
1982-092AHX
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Sep 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Mar 2022UTC calendar day
Time since launch
39 years, 6 months14,430 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.6°N to 82.6°SFinal inclination 82.6°

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 82.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.6°N and 82.6°S.

Life in orbit

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

Also ended on 20 Mar 2022

10 entries
2022-0577FENGYUN 1C DEB2022-0578IRIDIUM 33 DEB2022-0579H-2A DEB2022-0580COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0581COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0583COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0584COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0585COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0586COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-0587COSMOS 1408 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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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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