CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1969-0117
SL-8 DEB
SL-8 DEB (NORAD 3779) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 April 1969.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3779
International designator
1969-021C
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
5 Mar 1969Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Apr 1969UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 month50 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.1°N to 73.1°SFinal inclination 73.1°
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 73.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.1°N and 73.1°S.
Life in orbit
SL-8 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1969-021
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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