CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2003-0121
SL-8 R/B
SL-8 R/B (NORAD 11286) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 August 2003, after 24 years, 5 months in orbit.
Official date
NORAD number
11286
International designator
1979-020B
Object type
Rocket body
Country
USSR
Launched
27 Feb 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Aug 2003UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
24 years, 5 months8,926 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
73.9°N to 73.9°SFinal inclination 73.9°
Mass
1,434 kg
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 73.9°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 73.9°N and 73.9°S.
Life in orbit
24 years, 5 monthsSL-8 R/B’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1979-020
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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