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Entry no.
2010-0110

SL-3 R/B

SL-3 R/B (NORAD 11601) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 30 April 2010, after 30 years, 6 months in orbit.

Official date
NORAD number
11601
International designator
1979-093B
Object type
Rocket body
Country
USSR
Launched
26 Oct 1979Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
30 Apr 2010UTC calendar day
Time in orbit
30 years, 6 months11,144 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.2°N to 81.2°SFinal inclination 81.2°
Mass
1,440 kg

Where it came down

Latitude band its orbit allowed
Exact position not recorded

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit, inclined at 81.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.2°N and 81.2°S.

Life in orbit

30 years, 6 months

SL-3 R/B’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

From the same launch

1979-093
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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