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Entry no.
2014-0490

IRIDIUM 33 DEB

IRIDIUM 33 DEB (NORAD 35306) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 9 October 2014.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
35306
International designator
1997-051PW
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
14 Sep 1997Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
9 Oct 2014UTC calendar day
Time since launch
17 years6,234 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—

Where it came down

Not on record

No position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.

Life in orbit

IRIDIUM 33 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 9 Oct 2014

2 entries
2014-0492FLOCK 1-202014-0491BREEZE-M DEB

From the same launch

1997-051
1997-0258SL-12 R/B2002-0053IRIDIUM 272017-0155IRIDIUM 302018-0242IRIDIUM 312019-0048IRIDIUM 32

Part of a break-up

539 on record
539One of 539 fragments of Iridium 33 on record →
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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