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Entry no.
1985-0317
WESTFORD NEEDLES
WESTFORD NEEDLES (NORAD 5953) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 September 1985.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5953
International designator
1963-014CW
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Sep 1985UTC calendar day
Time since launch
22 years, 4 months8,171 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
WESTFORD NEEDLES’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1963-014
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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