COSMOS 2519

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COSMOS 2519 is classified as:

Military

NORAD ID: 42798

Int'l Code: 2017-037A

Perigee: 650.8 km

Apogee: 667.5 km

Inclination: 97.9 °

Period: 97.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 7030 km

RCS: Unknown

Launch date: June 23, 2017
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

COSMOS 2519 might be the first of several '14F150 Napryazhenie' geodetic satellites designed to make extremely accurate measurements of Earth's shape and gravitational field. Such data that can be fed into ballistic missile guidance computers.

1 42798U 17037A   18175.51738815  .00000042  00000-0  14095-4 0  9997
2 42798  97.8750 236.4543 0011843 147.7197 212.4744 14.72840899 53800

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC