CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2016-0128
CZ-4 DEB
CZ-4 DEB (NORAD 20971) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 June 2016.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
20971
International designator
1990-081CD
Object type
Fragment
Country
China
Parent launched
3 Sep 1990Taiyuan
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Jun 2016UTC calendar day
Time since launch
25 years, 9 months9,415 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
81.5°N to 81.5°SFinal inclination 98.5°
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 98.5°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 81.5°N and 81.5°S.
Life in orbit
CZ-4 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1990-081
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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