CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1970-0046
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 3872) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 15 February 1970.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3872
International designator
1968-091BF
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
15 Feb 1970UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 3 months483 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
—
Where it came down
Not on recordNo position was recorded for this re-entry. Its final orbit is not on record.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 249 DEB’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
Also ended on 15 Feb 1970
1 entryFrom the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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