CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1981-0261
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 3875) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 27 May 1981.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3875
International designator
1968-091BJ
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
27 May 1981UTC calendar day
Time since launch
12 years, 7 months4,602 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 27 May 1981
1 entryFrom the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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