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Entry no.
2000-0345

DELTA 1 DEB

DELTA 1 DEB (NORAD 8979) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 10 November 2000.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
8979
International designator
1975-004BM
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
22 Jan 1975Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
10 Nov 2000UTC calendar day
Time since launch
25 years, 9 months9,424 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
82.3°N to 82.3°SFinal inclination 97.7°

Where it came down

Latitude band its orbit allowed
Exact position not recorded

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 97.7°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 82.3°N and 82.3°S.

Life in orbit

DELTA 1 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 10 Nov 2000

3 entries
2000-0347DELTA 2 R/B(2) (PAM-D)2000-0346WESTFORD NEEDLES2000-0348CZ-4 DEB

Part of a fragment group

175 on record
175One of 175 fragments of Delta 1 on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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