CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1997-0208
PEGASUS DEB
PEGASUS DEB (NORAD 23979) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 July 1997.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
23979
International designator
1994-029Z
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
19 May 1994Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Jul 1997UTC calendar day
Time since launch
3 years, 2 months1,162 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 24 Jul 1997
1 entryPart of a fragment group
697 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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