CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1991-0541
WESTFORD NEEDLES
WESTFORD NEEDLES (NORAD 19880) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 December 1991.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
19880
International designator
1963-014ES
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Dec 1991UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 16 Dec 1991
Time since launch
28 years, 7 months10,449 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.2°N to 83.2°SFinal inclination 83.2°
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 83.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.2°N and 83.2°S.
Life in orbit
WESTFORD NEEDLES’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1963-014
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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