CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1996-0117
WESTFORD NEEDLES
WESTFORD NEEDLES (NORAD 19859) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 September 1996.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
19859
International designator
1963-014EQ
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Sep 1996UTC calendar dayAlso recorded as 8 Dec 1996
Time since launch
33 years, 4 months12,195 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
WESTFORD NEEDLES’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Sep 1996
3 entriesFrom the same launch
1963-014
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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