COSMOS 2443 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2443 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33379

Int'l Code: 2008-046B

Perigee: 19,095.5 km

Apogee: 19,179.1 km

Inclination: 65.5 °

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   26164.34679337 -.00000051  00000-0  00000-0 0  9991
2 33379  65.4777 315.1099 0016387 175.9322 167.5022  2.13098991137865

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC