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Entry no.
2024-0508

WESTFORD NEEDLES

WESTFORD NEEDLES (NORAD 2379) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 April 2024.

Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
2379
International designator
1963-014Z
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
9 May 1963Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
18 Apr 2024UTC calendar day
Time since launch
60 years, 11 months22,260 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

WESTFORD NEEDLES’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.

Also ended on 18 Apr 2024

17 entries
2024-0517Tianqi Xingzuo 1-042024-0523BDSAT2024-0524CNCE52024-0509SL-18 DEB2024-0510FENGYUN 1C DEB2024-0511CBERS 1 DEB2024-0512IRIDIUM 33 DEB2024-0513COSMOS 2251 DEB2024-0514IRIDIUM 33 DEB2024-0515COSMOS 2251 DEB2024-0516IRIDIUM 33 DEB2024-0518RESURS O1 DEB+5 more

From the same launch

1963-014
2011-0387ERS 5
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Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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