CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2003-0066
M-5 DEB
M-5 DEB (NORAD 27488) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 23 April 2003.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
27488
International designator
1997-005F
Object type
Fragment
Country
Japan
Parent launched
12 Feb 1997Uchinoura
Re-entered (UTC)
23 Apr 2003UTC calendar day
Time since launch
6 years, 2 months2,261 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
31.1°N to 31.1°SFinal inclination 31.1°
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 31.1°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 31.1°N and 31.1°S.
Life in orbit
M-5 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1997-005
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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