CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0060
SL-8 DEB *
SL-8 DEB * (NORAD 9994) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 February 1978.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
9994
International designator
1975-109J
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
21 Nov 1975Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Feb 1978UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 2 months813 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
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 74.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.0°N and 74.0°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
1975-109
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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