CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0002
WESTFORD NEEDLES
WESTFORD NEEDLES (NORAD 2430) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 January 1979.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
2430
International designator
1963-014DH
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
1 Jan 1979UTC calendar day
Time since launch
15 years, 7 months5,716 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
WESTFORD NEEDLES’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 1 Jan 1979
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1963-014
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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