CERTIFICATE OF RE-ENTRYOrbital Register™ · by Orbital Radar™
Entry no.
2012-0391
COSMOS 249 DEB *
COSMOS 249 DEB * (NORAD 5574) re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on 31 October 2012.
Official dateFragment record
NORAD number
5574
International designator
1968-091CA
Object type
Fragment
Country
USSR
Parent launched
20 Oct 1968Baikonur Cosmodrome
Re-entered (UTC)
31 Oct 2012UTC calendar day
Time since launch
44 years16,082 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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