Key statistics
Satellite COSMOS 249 DEB * at a glance.
Uptime
20714
Days in orbit
Revolutions
≈ 15.5
Per day
Orbit
LEO
Low Earth Orbit
Inclination
62.4
Latest
Satellite identification and parameters
Extended collection of information and parameters for COSMOS 249 DEB *.
Object identification
Identified? True
Debris? True
Object name: COSMOS 249 DEB *
International designator: 1968-091AR
Object number (NORAD): 3753
Object ID (CCSDS): 3753
Country: COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (CIS)
Current information (Y/N): Y
RCS size: SMALL
Orbital parameters
Period: 92.77 minutes
Inclination: 62.3918 deg
SMA: 6788.369 km
Apoapsis: 464.403 km
Periapsis: 356.064 km
RAAN: 186.843 deg
Eccentricy: 0.0079797
Argument of periapsis: 41.03 deg
Mean anomaly: 319.6784 deg
Mean motion: 15.52224881 rev/day
Mean motion (dot): 0.00156385 rev/day2
B* drag term: 0.0021956 1/REarth
Two-line elements (TLE)
Creation date: July 6, 2025, 6:05 p.m.
Reference frame: TEME
Reference center: EARTH
Epoch: July 6, 2025, 7:47 a.m. UTC
TLE line 0: 0 COSMOS 249 DEB *
TLE line 1: 1 03753U 68091AR 25187.32469327 .00156385 00000-0 21956-2 0 9994
TLE line 2: 2 03753 62.3918 186.8430 0079797 41.0300 319.6784 15.52224881884923
Live tracking on map
Real-time ground track for satellite COSMOS 249 DEB *.
Associated space launch
The I2P satellites were the first soviet coorbital ASAT system.
COSMOS 249 DEB * was lifted into orbit during the mission ‘Tsiklon-2A | I2P 1’, on board a Tsiklon-2A space rocket.
The launch took place on Oct. 20, 1968, 4:02 a.m. from 90/20.
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Tsiklon-2A | I2P 1
Agency: N/A
Status: Launch Successful
Launch date: Oct. 20, 1968, 4:02 a.m. UTC
Rocket: Tsiklon-2A
Launch pad: 90/20
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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