CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2005-0168
SL-8 DEB
SL-8 DEB (NORAD 6967) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 11 October 2005.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6967
International designator
1973-098C
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
4 Dec 1973Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
11 Oct 2005UTC calendar day
Time since launch
31 years, 10 months11,634 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.0°N to 74.0°SFinal inclination 74.0°
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 74.0°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.0°N and 74.0°S.
Life in orbit
SL-8 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 11 Oct 2005
1 entry
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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