CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2001-0269
THORAD AGENA D DEB
THORAD AGENA D DEB (NORAD 21838) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 4 October 2001.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
21838
International designator
1970-025QJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
8 Apr 1970Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
4 Oct 2001UTC calendar day
Time since launch
31 years, 5 months11,502 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
80.0°N to 80.0°SFinal inclination 100.0°
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 100.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 80.0°N and 80.0°S.
Life in orbit
THORAD AGENA D DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Part of a fragment group
179 on record
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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