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Entry no.
2025-0105

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 37981) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 January 2025.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
37981
International designator
1993-036BQG
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Jan 2025UTC calendar day
Time since launch
31 years, 6 months11,532 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 11 Jan 2025

18 entries
2025-0106LEMUR 2 TINYKEV2025-0107STARLINK-15742025-0110STARLINK-24632025-0113STARLINK-36892025-0114NUSAT-24 (KALPANA CHAWIA2025-0116FLOCK 4Q 182025-0099FENGYUN 1C DEB2025-0100FENGYUN 1C DEB2025-0101CZ-4 DEB2025-0102METEOR 2-5 DEB2025-0103COSMOS 2251 DEB2025-0104METEOR 2-7 DEB+6 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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