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Entry no.
1979-0127

TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB

TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB (NORAD 3502) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 March 1979.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3502
International designator
1965-082QY
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
15 Oct 1965Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Mar 1979UTC calendar day
Time since launch
13 years, 5 months4,911 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
32.5°N to 32.5°SFinal inclination 32.5°

Where it came down

Latitude band its orbit allowed
Exact position not recorded

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 32.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 32.5°N and 32.5°S.

Life in orbit

TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 27 Mar 1979

2 entries
1979-0128COSMOS 1080 DEB1979-0129COSMOS 1080 DEB

From the same launch

1965-082
1982-0325LCS 22003-0268TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE R/B

Part of a fragment group

441 on record
441One of 441 fragments of Titan 3C Transtage on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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