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Entry no.
1989-0458

SOLWIND DEB

SOLWIND DEB (NORAD 18873) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 26 April 1989.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
18873
International designator
1979-017LU
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
24 Feb 1979Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
26 Apr 1989UTC calendar day
Time since launch
10 years, 2 months3,714 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—

Where it came down

Not on record

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.

Life in orbit

SOLWIND DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 26 Apr 1989

4 entries
1989-0459Kosmos-1985 SS 81989-0456ARIANE 1 DEB1989-0457SOLWIND DEB1989-0460COSMOS 2006 DEB

From the same launch

1979-017
1983-0400ATLAS R/B1992-0178SOLWIND

Part of a fragment group

284 on record
284One of 284 fragments of Solwind on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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