CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1978-0002
COSMOS 249 DEB *
COSMOS 249 DEB * (NORAD 3697) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 3 January 1978.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3697
International designator
1968-091AM
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
3 Jan 1978UTC calendar day
Time since launch
9 years, 2 months3,362 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 3 Jan 1978
1 entryFrom the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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