CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0684
ELEKTRON 1 DEB *
ELEKTRON 1 DEB * (NORAD 18686) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 October 1988.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18686
International designator
1964-006P
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
30 Jan 1964Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Oct 1988UTC calendar day
Time since launch
24 years, 8 months9,027 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
63.0°N to 63.0°SFinal inclination 63.0°
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 63.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 63.0°N and 63.0°S.
Life in orbit
ELEKTRON 1 DEB *’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 17 Oct 1988
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1964-006
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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