CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0142
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 3792) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 April 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3792
International designator
1968-091AZ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
13 Apr 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
12 years, 5 months4,558 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 13 Apr 1981
28 entries1981-0162Kosmos-1204 SS 111981-0165SL-6 R/B(1)1981-0166SL-4 R/B1981-0138OPS 8464 DEB *1981-0139TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB1981-0140TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB1981-0141TITAN 3C TRANSTAGE DEB1981-0143COSMOS 252 DEB *1981-0144SL-8 DEB1981-0145THORAD AGENA D DEB1981-0146SCOUT B DEB1981-0147THORAD AGENA D DEB+16 more
From the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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