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Entry no.
2025-1815

COSMOS 1408 DEB

COSMOS 1408 DEB (NORAD 49537) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 December 2025 over Africa.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
49537
International designator
1982-092AA
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Sep 1982Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Dec 2025Recorded time 02:45 UTC
Time since launch
43 years, 2 months15,783 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.5°N to 82.5°SFinal inclination 82.5°

Where it came down

Recorded position

Recorded position 20.0°N, 2.0°W at 02:45 UTC. Its final orbit, inclined at 82.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.5°N and 82.5°S.

Life in orbit

COSMOS 1408 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 2 Dec 2025

4 entries
2025-1813COSMOS 18922025-1814STARLINK-16432025-1817STARLINK-53262025-1816CZ-6A DEB

From the same launch

1982-092
2024-1716Cosmos 1408

Part of a break-up

1,802 on record
1,802One of 1,802 fragments of Cosmos 1408 on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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