CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-1889
METEOR 2-6 DEB
METEOR 2-6 DEB (NORAD 38837) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 December 2025.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
38837
International designator
1980-073P
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
9 Sep 1980Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Dec 2025UTC calendar day
Time since launch
45 years, 3 months16,540 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
Where it came down
Latitude band its orbit allowedExact position not recorded
No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
METEOR 2-6 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Dec 2025
2 entries
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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