CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1970-0270
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 4500) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 12 December 1970.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
4500
International designator
1968-091BZ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
12 Dec 1970UTC calendar day
Time since launch
2 years, 1 month783 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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