CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0228
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB
TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB (NORAD 9840) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 May 1978.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
9840
International designator
1965-082UJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
15 Oct 1965Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
21 May 1978UTC calendar day
Time since launch
12 years, 7 months4,601 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
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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