COSMOS 2444 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2444 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33380

Int'l Code: 2008-046C

Perigee: 19,086.7 km

Apogee: 19,185.7 km

Inclination: 65.9 °

Period: 675.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 25507 km

RCS: 3.1623 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 33380U 08046C   24130.50977681 -.00000065  00000-0  00000-0 0  9990
2 33380  65.8634 340.8557 0019402 296.5881 241.6474  2.13112302121566

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC