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Entry no.
2025-0153

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 44983) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 January 2025.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
44983
International designator
1993-036BWR
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Jan 2025UTC calendar day
Time since launch
31 years, 7 months11,537 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 16 Jan 2025

10 entries
2025-0152CHUBUSAT 12025-0146DELTA 1 DEB2025-0147FENGYUN 1C DEB2025-0148IRIDIUM 33 DEB2025-0149COSMOS 2251 DEB2025-0150FENGYUN 1C DEB2025-0151COSMOS 2251 DEB2025-0154NOAA 17 DEB2025-0155COSMOS 2428 DEB2025-0156CZ-6A 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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