ELEKTRO-L 2

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ELEKTRO-L 2 is classified as:

NORAD ID: 41105

Int'l Code: 2015-074A

Perigee: 35,790.8 km

Apogee: 35,795.9 km

Inclination: 4.8 °

Period: 1,436.1 minutes

Semi major axis: 42164 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: December 11, 2015
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: TYURATAM MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (TTMTR)

ELEKTRO-L 2 is a weather satellite to help civilian and military forecasters track storm systems, collecting near-realtime images of weather systems from Europe to the Asia-Pacific, joining an international fleet of geostationary weather satellites owned by the United States, Europe, India, China and Japan. ELEKTRO-L 2 will be positioned at 77.8 degrees east longitude, where its weather sensors will track storms with an image refresh rate of about 30 minutes.

1 41105U 15074A   24140.16717104 -.00000101  00000-0  00000+0 0  9998
2 41105   4.7692  79.7977 0000613 224.1422 339.0803  1.00273239 30909

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC