CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0087
SL-8 DEB *
SL-8 DEB * (NORAD 9990) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 February 1978.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
9990
International designator
1976-031D
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
6 Apr 1976Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Feb 1978UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 10 months692 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.
From the same launch
1976-031
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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