CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1995-0132
WESTFORD NEEDLES *
WESTFORD NEEDLES * (NORAD 5994) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 September 1995.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5994
International designator
1963-014DA
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Sep 1995UTC calendar day
Time since launch
32 years, 4 months11,823 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
83.7°N to 83.7°SFinal inclination 83.7°
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 83.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 83.7°N and 83.7°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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