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Entry no.
2022-1588

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 38480) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 July 2022.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
38480
International designator
1993-036BTQ
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Jul 2022UTC calendar day
Time since launch
29 years, 1 month10,626 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 20 Jul 2022

12 entries
2022-1593ONEWEB-02512022-1585FENGYUN 1C DEB2022-1586FENGYUN 1C DEB2022-1587COSMOS 2251 DEB2022-1589TRANSIT 5E-5 DEB2022-1590RESURS O1 DEB2022-1591IRIDIUM 33 DEB2022-1592YUNHAI 1-02 DEB2022-1594COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-1595COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-1596COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-1597COSMOS 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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