CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2004-0062
SL-12 DEB
SL-12 DEB (NORAD 27930) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 March 2004.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
27930
International designator
1987-079AP
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Sep 1987Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Mar 2004UTC calendar day
Time since launch
16 years, 6 months6,040 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
66.4°N to 66.4°SFinal inclination 66.4°
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 66.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 66.4°N and 66.4°S.
Life in orbit
SL-12 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1987-079
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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