CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2025-1876
DMSP 5D-2 F14 DEB
DMSP 5D-2 F14 DEB (NORAD 62946) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 December 2025.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
62946
International designator
1997-012S
Object type
Fragment
Country
United States
Parent launched
4 Apr 1997Vandenberg
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Dec 2025UTC calendar day
Time since launch
28 years, 8 months10,483 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
DMSP 5D-2 F14 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 16 Dec 2025
2 entries
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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Record version 1 · No corrections · orbitalradar.com/register/2025-1876
© 2026 Orbital Radar. Cite this entry by its number; the register itself may not be copied.