CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1972-0024
SL-6 PLAT
SL-6 PLAT (NORAD 5710) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 January 1972.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5710
International designator
1971-115D
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
19 Dec 1971Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Jan 1972UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 month39 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
65.4°N to 65.4°SFinal inclination 65.4°
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 65.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 65.4°N and 65.4°S.
Life in orbit
SL-6 PLAT’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1971-115
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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