CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0304
ARIANE DEB (SPELDA)
ARIANE DEB (SPELDA) (NORAD 25052) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 October 1998.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
25052
International designator
1997-071D
Object type
Fragment
Country
France
Parent launched
11 Nov 1997Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Oct 1998UTC calendar day
Time since launch
11 months344 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
7.2°N to 7.2°SFinal inclination 7.2°
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 7.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 7.2°N and 7.2°S.
Life in orbit
ARIANE DEB (SPELDA)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1997-071
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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