CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0088
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 6045) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 6 March 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6045
International designator
1968-091CE
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
6 Mar 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
12 years, 4 months4,520 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 6 Mar 1981
2 entriesFrom the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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