CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2013-0156
SL-12 DEB
SL-12 DEB (NORAD 38556) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 May 2013.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
38556
International designator
1989-001X
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
10 Jan 1989Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 May 2013UTC calendar day
Time since launch
24 years, 4 months8,892 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
64.6°N to 64.6°SFinal inclination 64.6°
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 64.6°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 64.6°N and 64.6°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
1989-001
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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