CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2004-0138
COSMOS 249 DEB
COSMOS 249 DEB (NORAD 6138) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 16 September 2004.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
6138
International designator
1968-091CF
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
16 Sep 2004UTC calendar day
Time since launch
35 years, 10 months13,115 days
How it ended
Re-entered (natural decay)
Latitude range
62.2°N to 62.2°SFinal inclination 62.2°
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 62.2°, allowed a re-entry anywhere between 62.2°N and 62.2°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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