CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0109
SALYUT 6 DEB
SALYUT 6 DEB (NORAD 11472) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 March 1980.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
11472
International designator
1977-097AZ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
29 Sep 1977Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Mar 1980UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 5 months899 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
SALYUT 6 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 16 Mar 1980
1 entryFrom the same launch
1977-097
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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