CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0423
SL-6 PLAT
SL-6 PLAT (NORAD 12629) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 August 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
12629
International designator
1981-071B
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
4 Aug 1981Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Aug 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
22 days22 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.9°N to 62.9°SFinal inclination 62.9°
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 62.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.9°N and 62.9°S.
Life in orbit
SL-6 PLAT’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1981-071
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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