CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
1982-0164
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 3910) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 18 May 1982.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
3910
International designator
1968-091BN
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
18 May 1982UTC calendar day
Time since launch
13 years, 6 months4,958 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 18 May 1982
1 entryFrom the same launch
1968-091
Entered in the Orbital Register™, founding volume, September 2026.
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