COSMOS 2431 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2431 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 32277

Int'l Code: 2007-052C

Perigee: 19,092.3 km

Apogee: 19,164.8 km

Inclination: 66.0 °

Period: 675.4 minutes

Semi major axis: 25499 km

RCS: 3.1623 m² (large)

Launch date: October 26, 2007
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 32277U 07052C   24133.15006948 -.00000069  00000-0  00000-0 0  9997
2 32277  65.9606 341.5244 0014219 173.4093   7.9049  2.13208788128887

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC