CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1979-0510
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 3959) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 29 October 1979.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3959
International designator
1968-091BT
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
29 Oct 1979UTC calendar day
Time since launch
11 years4,026 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.4°N to 62.4°SFinal inclination 62.4°
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 62.4°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.4°N and 62.4°S.
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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