COSMOS 2517 (GEO-IK)

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COSMOS 2517 (GEO-IK) is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 41579

Int'l Code: 2016-034A

Perigee: 949.4 km

Apogee: 951.0 km

Inclination: 99.3 °

Period: 103.9 minutes

Semi major axis: 7321 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: June 4, 2016
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

GEO-IK 2 is designed to investigate Earth’s gravitational field. It will also gain data on the global displacement of the Earth’s crust, along with the study of sea surface heights and tidal movements. With a mass of 900 kilograms and an EPS capacity of 1000 W, the spacecraft has a designed lifetime of five years. It will conduct its work in a sun-synchronous orbit occupied at an altitude of 1000 kilometers. It will be joined by another spacecraft in the future, which was originally the plan for this mission.

1 41579U 16034A   20018.17712823 -.00000037  00000-0  58757-5 0  9990
2 41579  99.2530  32.5905 0001067  65.8954 294.2311 13.85901293183220

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC