CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Orbital Register seal
Entry no.
2002-0396

PSLV DEB

PSLV DEB (NORAD 27238) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 21 September 2002.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
27238
International designator
2001-049GJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
India
Parent launched
22 Oct 2001Sriharikota
Re-entered (UTC)
21 Sep 2002UTC calendar day
Time since launch
10 months334 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

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

Also ended on 21 Sep 2002

3 entries
2002-0394MOLNIYA 3-252002-0395DELTA 2 R/B2002-0393COSMOS 249 DEB

From the same launch

2001-049
2023-1717BIRD 22025-1898TESPendingPSLV R/B

Part of a fragment group

339 on record
339One of 339 fragments of PSLV on record →
Orbital Register seal
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/2002-0396
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.