CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1991-0489
ARIANE 42P DEB (SPELDA)
ARIANE 42P DEB (SPELDA) (NORAD 20948) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 November 1991.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
20948
International designator
1990-100D
Object type
Fragment
Country
France
Parent launched
20 Nov 1990Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Nov 1991UTC calendar day
Time since launch
11 months351 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
7.0°N to 7.0°SFinal inclination 7.0°
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 7.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 7.0°N and 7.0°S.
Life in orbit
ARIANE 42P DEB (SPELDA)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1990-100
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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