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Entry no.
2025-0471

COSMOS 2251 DEB

COSMOS 2251 DEB (NORAD 37977) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 28 February 2025.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
37977
International designator
1993-036BQC
Object type
Fragment
Country
Russia
Parent launched
16 Jun 1993Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
28 Feb 2025UTC calendar day
Time since launch
31 years, 8 months11,580 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 28 Feb 2025

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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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