CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1998-0344
ARIANE 44L+ DEB (SPELDA)
ARIANE 44L+ DEB (SPELDA) (NORAD 23316) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 November 1998.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
23316
International designator
1994-065D
Object type
Fragment
Country
France
Parent launched
8 Oct 1994Guiana Space Centre
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Nov 1998UTC calendar day
Time since launch
4 years, 1 month1,508 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
4.1°N to 4.1°SFinal inclination 4.1°
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 4.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 4.1°N and 4.1°S.
Life in orbit
ARIANE 44L+ DEB (SPELDA)’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1994-065
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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