CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1965-0330
SL-5 R/B
SL-5 R/B (NORAD 685) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 October 1965, after 1 year, 11 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
685
International designator
1963-043C
Object type
Rocket body
Country
USSR
Launched
1 Nov 1963Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Oct 1965UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
1 year, 11 months728 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
59.0°N to 59.0°SFinal inclination 59.0°
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 59.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 59.0°N and 59.0°S.
Life in orbit
1 year, 11 monthsSL-5 R/B’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Came down with SL-5 R/B
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1963-043
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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