CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0251
M-3S DEB
M-3S DEB (NORAD 14724) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 20 April 1988.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
14724
International designator
1984-015C
Object type
Fragment
Country
Japan
Parent launched
14 Feb 1984Uchinoura
Re-entered (UTC)
20 Apr 1988UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 years, 2 months1,527 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.5°N to 74.5°SFinal inclination 74.5°
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 74.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.5°N and 74.5°S.
Life in orbit
M-3S DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1984-015
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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