COSMOS 2442 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2442 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33378

Int'l Code: 2008-046A

Perigee: 19,091.3 km

Apogee: 19,181.7 km

Inclination: 65.7 °

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   25192.54211334 -.00000052  00000-0  00000-0 0  9992
2 33378  65.6545 326.3522 0017721 304.2227  59.0830  2.13108133130694

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC