CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1970-0169
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 4002) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 3 August 1970.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
4002
International designator
1968-091BX
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Aug 1970UTC calendar day
Time since launch
1 year, 9 months652 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.
From the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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