CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2008-0027
SL-12 DEB
SL-12 DEB (NORAD 27916) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 24 February 2008.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
27916
International designator
1987-079Z
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
16 Sep 1987Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
24 Feb 2008UTC calendar day
Time since launch
20 years, 5 months7,466 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.5°N to 64.5°SFinal inclination 64.5°
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 64.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.5°N and 64.5°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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