CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0590
SL-8 R/B
SL-8 R/B (NORAD 1448) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 November 1981, after 16 years, 4 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
1448
International designator
1965-053F
Object type
Rocket body
Country
USSR
Launched
16 Jul 1965Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Nov 1981UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
16 years, 4 months5,972 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
56.0°N to 56.0°SFinal inclination 56.0°
Mass
1,434 kg
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 56.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 56.0°N and 56.0°S.
Life in orbit
16 years, 4 monthsSL-8 R/B’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1965-053
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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