CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1969-0212
SL-8 DEB
SL-8 DEB (NORAD 3977) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 August 1969.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3977
International designator
1969-021X
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
5 Mar 1969Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Aug 1969UTC calendar day
Time since launch
5 months166 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
SL-8 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 18 Aug 1969
1 entryFrom the same launch
1969-021
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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