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Entry no.
2023-0944

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 37521) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 April 2023.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
37521
International designator
1993-036BNA
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Apr 2023UTC calendar day
Time since launch
29 years, 10 months10,907 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 27 Apr 2023

26 entries
2023-0948STARLINK-11292023-0951PROMETHEUS 2-82023-0959CZ-4C R/B2023-0933DMSP 5D-2 F11 DEB2023-0934FENGYUN 1C DEB2023-0935CBERS 1 DEB2023-0936FENGYUN 1C DEB2023-0937IRIDIUM 33 DEB2023-0938COSMOS 2251 DEB2023-0939FENGYUN 1C DEB2023-0940IRIDIUM 33 DEB2023-0941COSMOS 2251 DEB+14 more

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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