CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1994-0137
WESTFORD NEEDLES
WESTFORD NEEDLES (NORAD 21659) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 2 October 1994.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
21659
International designator
1963-014FF
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
2 Oct 1994UTC calendar day
Time since launch
31 years, 4 months11,469 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
84.2°N to 84.2°SFinal inclination 84.2°
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 84.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 84.2°N and 84.2°S.
Life in orbit
WESTFORD NEEDLES’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 2 Oct 1994
1 entryFrom the same launch
1963-014
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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