CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1987-0114
DELTA 1 DEB
DELTA 1 DEB (NORAD 16946) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 March 1987.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
16946
International designator
1986-069J
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
5 Sep 1986Cape Canaveral
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Mar 1987UTC calendar day
Time since launch
6 months206 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
DELTA 1 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1986-069
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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