CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1999-0110
SL-3 R/B
SL-3 R/B (NORAD 7418) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 April 1999, after 24 years, 7 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
7418
International designator
1974-066B
Object type
Rocket body
Country
USSR
Launched
16 Aug 1974Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Apr 1999UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
24 years, 7 months9,006 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
Mass
1,440 kg
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 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.
Life in orbit
24 years, 7 monthsSL-3 R/B’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1974-066
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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