CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0510
SALYUT 6 DEB
SALYUT 6 DEB (NORAD 11097) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 December 1978.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
11097
International designator
1977-097AF
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
29 Sep 1977Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Dec 1978UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 2 months446 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
51.7°N to 51.7°SFinal inclination 51.7°
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 51.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 51.7°N and 51.7°S.
Life in orbit
SALYUT 6 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1977-097
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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