CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1988-0818
ASTRO C DEB
ASTRO C DEB (NORAD 18408) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 22 November 1988.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18408
International designator
1987-012F
Object type
Fragment
Country
Japan
Parent launched
5 Feb 1987Uchinoura
Re-entered (UTC)
22 Nov 1988UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 9 months656 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
31.0°N to 31.0°SFinal inclination 31.0°
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 31.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 31.0°N and 31.0°S.
Life in orbit
ASTRO C DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 22 Nov 1988
1 entryFrom the same launch
1987-012
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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