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Entry no.
2000-0254
M-3S2 DEB
M-3S2 DEB (NORAD 20021) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 19 September 2000.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
20021
International designator
1989-016N
Object type
Fragment
Country
Japan
Parent launched
21 Feb 1989Uchinoura
Re-entered (UTC)
19 Sep 2000UTC calendar day
Time since launch
11 years, 6 months4,228 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
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 74.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.0°N and 74.0°S.
Life in orbit
M-3S2 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1989-016
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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