COSMOS 2444 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2444 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33380

Int'l Code: 2008-046C

Perigee: 19,085.1 km

Apogee: 19,187.3 km

Inclination: 65.8 °

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   25019.20783054 -.00000072  00000-0  00000+0 0  9990
2 33380  65.7595 332.3323 0020041 293.8380 168.0460  2.13112245126987

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC