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Entry no.
2023-0168

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 35984) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 January 2023.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
35984
International designator
1993-036AWA
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Jan 2023UTC calendar day
Time since launch
29 years, 7 months10,821 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 31 Jan 2023

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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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