CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1997-0357
MIR DEB
MIR DEB (NORAD 23922) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 November 1997.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
23922
International designator
1986-017LJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
19 Feb 1986Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 Nov 1997UTC calendar day
Time since launch
11 years, 9 months4,299 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
51.6°N to 51.6°SFinal inclination 51.6°
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 51.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 51.6°N and 51.6°S.
Life in orbit
MIR DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 27 Nov 1997
1 entryFrom the same launch
1986-017Part of a fragment group
319 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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