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Entry no.
2023-1757

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 37097) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 October 2023.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
37097
International designator
1993-036BFT
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Oct 2023UTC calendar day
Time since launch
30 years, 4 months11,084 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 21 Oct 2023

14 entries
2023-1754TERRIERS2023-1759NUSAT 12023-1760NUSAT-13 EMMY2023-1761NUSAT-18 VERA2023-1762ET-SMART-RSS2023-1755TRANSIT 15 DEB2023-1756FENGYUN 1C DEB2023-1758COSMOS 2251 DEB2023-1763YUNHAI 1-02 DEB2023-1764COSMOS 1408 DEB2023-1765RESURS O1 DEB2023-1766CZ-2C DEB+2 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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