CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0542
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) (NORAD 18448) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 September 1988, after 10 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
18448
International designator
1987-091F
Object type
Rocket body
Country
USSR
Launched
28 Oct 1987Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Sep 1988UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
10 months314 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Mass
120 kg
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
10 monthsSL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1987-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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