COSMOS 2442 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2442 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33378

Int'l Code: 2008-046A

Perigee: 19,088.1 km

Apogee: 19,184.9 km

Inclination: 65.8 °

Period: 675.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 25507 km

RCS: 3.9811 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 33378U 08046A   24117.21072410 -.00000039  00000-0  00000-0 0  9997
2 33378  65.8486 341.1480 0018980 312.4583 229.0829  2.13108426121289

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC