CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1980-0565
DELTA 1 DEB
DELTA 1 DEB (NORAD 9002) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 December 1980.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
9002
International designator
1975-004CL
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
22 Jan 1975Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Dec 1980UTC calendar day
Time since launch
5 years, 11 months2,165 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.0°N to 82.0°SFinal inclination 98.0°
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 98.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.0°N and 82.0°S.
Life in orbit
DELTA 1 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 26 Dec 1980
1 entryPart of a fragment group
175 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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