CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0236
M-3S2 DEB
M-3S2 DEB (NORAD 19952) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 25 August 1998.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
19952
International designator
1989-016K
Object type
Fragment
Country
Japan
Parent launched
21 Feb 1989Uchinoura
Re-entered (UTC)
25 Aug 1998UTC calendar day
Time since launch
9 years, 6 months3,472 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
75.3°N to 75.3°SFinal inclination 75.3°
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 75.3°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 75.3°N and 75.3°S.
Life in orbit
M-3S2 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 25 Aug 1998
1 entryFrom the same launch
1989-016
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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