COSMOS 2443 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2443 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33379

Int'l Code: 2008-046B

Perigee: 19,103.6 km

Apogee: 19,171.1 km

Inclination: 65.9 °

Period: 675.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 25508 km

RCS: 3.1698 m² (large)

Launch date: September 25, 2008
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

Glonass is a radio satellite navigation system, the former Soviet and now Russian counterpart to the United States' GPS system and the European Union's embryonic Galileo positioning system. It is operated for the Russian government by the Russian Space Forces.

1 33379U 08046B   24130.20946001 -.00000064  00000-0  00000-0 0  9996
2 33379  65.8551 340.8202 0013219 173.6546 356.0934  2.13098242121560

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC