CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1970-0096
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB (NORAD 3980) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 April 1970.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3980
International designator
1965-082SF
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
15 Oct 1965Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Apr 1970UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 years, 6 months1,652 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
30.1°N to 30.1°SFinal inclination 30.1°
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 30.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 30.1°N and 30.1°S.
Life in orbit
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1965-082Part of a fragment group
441 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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