GONETS M 13 (M23)

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GONETS M 13 (M23) is classified as:

Gonets

NORAD ID: 40554

Int'l Code: 2015-020C

Perigee: 1,490.6 km

Apogee: 1,512.6 km

Inclination: 82.5 °

Period: 115.9 minutes

Semi major axis: 7872 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: March 31, 2015
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

GONETS M satellites (Gonets = 'messenger') in Russian are to designed to relay secure messages between mobile terminals and fixed operators. The Gonets constellation has 12 satellites. The Gonets fleet is effective in Russia's far northern regions out of reach of conventional satellite communications systems. Messages relayed by the Gonets network are transmitted from the ground to a satellite passing overhead, then stored in the craft's memory until it flies over the message's recipient. The Gonets system is commissioned by Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency and is intended to provide communications and data transmission services to remote and hard-to-reach regions, including the Far North, as well as to be used for industrial, transport and ecological monitoring purposes.

1 40554U 15020C   19236.78303020 +.00000040 +00000-0 +21909-3 0  9998
2 40554 082.4872 141.2779 0013983 000.9437 359.1665 12.42879683199654

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC