CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1977-0500
SL-8 DEB
SL-8 DEB (NORAD 5956) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 8 December 1977.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5956
International designator
1971-052F
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
4 Jun 1971Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
8 Dec 1977UTC calendar day
Time since launch
6 years, 6 months2,379 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.
Came down with SL-8 DEB
1 entryFrom the same launch
1971-052
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.