CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1996-0183
PEGASUS DEB
PEGASUS DEB (NORAD 23998) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 November 1996.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
23998
International designator
1994-029AT
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
19 May 1994Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Nov 1996UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 6 months917 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.0°N to 82.0°SFinal inclination 82.0°
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 82.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.0°N and 82.0°S.
Life in orbit
PEGASUS DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 21 Nov 1996
2 entriesPart of a fragment group
697 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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