CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1976-0550
COSMOS 250 DEB *
COSMOS 250 DEB * (NORAD 8780) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 17 October 1976.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
8780
International designator
1968-095G
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
30 Oct 1968Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
17 Oct 1976UTC calendar day
Time since launch
7 years, 11 months2,909 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
74.2°N to 74.2°SFinal inclination 74.2°
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 74.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 74.2°N and 74.2°S.
Life in orbit
COSMOS 250 DEB *’s lowest and highest points above Earth, week by week, from its tracking history.
From the same launch
1968-095
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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