CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Orbital Register seal
Entry no.
2017-0074

IRIDIUM 33 DEB

IRIDIUM 33 DEB (NORAD 34895) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 1 May 2017.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
34895
International designator
1997-051MX
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
14 Sep 1997Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
1 May 2017UTC calendar day
Time since launch
19 years, 7 months7,169 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 1 May 2017

3 entries
2017-0077FALCON 9 R/B2017-0075IRIDIUM 33 DEB2017-0076DMSP 5D-2 F13 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 →
Orbital Register seal
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/2017-0074
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.