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Entry no.
2022-1760

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 38216) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 August 2022.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
38216
International designator
1993-036BTG
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Aug 2022UTC calendar day
Time since launch
29 years, 2 months10,662 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 25 Aug 2022

3 entries
2022-1761COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-1762COSMOS 1408 DEB2022-1763COSMOS 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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