CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1962-0012
SAMOS 6 DEB (REFLECTOR)
SAMOS 6 DEB (REFLECTOR) (NORAD 258) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 March 1962.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
258
International designator
1962-007B
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
7 Mar 1962Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Mar 1962UTC calendar day
Time since launch
24 days24 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
89.2°N to 89.2°SFinal inclination 90.8°
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 90.8°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 89.2°N and 89.2°S.
Life in orbit
SAMOS 6 DEB (REFLECTOR)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1962-007
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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