COSMOS 2443 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2443 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 33379

Int'l Code: 2008-046B

Perigee: 19,104.5 km

Apogee: 19,170.2 km

Inclination: 65.9 °

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   24113.33660684 -.00000046  00000-0  00000-0 0  9991
2 33379  65.8609 341.3845 0012879 175.0100  10.7848  2.13098374121201

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC