INTERCOSMOS 24
Launch
Launched on Sep 28, 1989 from 32/2, Russia aboard a Tsiklon-3.
Tsiklon-3 | AUOS-Z-AV-IK 1 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 18:18 UTC
Orbit class
MEO — Medium Earth (2,000–30,000 km, e.g. GPS / Galileo)
Operator
Russian / Soviet Government
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Sep 28, 1989
Mass
1,400 kg
Apogee
2,355 km
Perigee
502 km
Inclination
82.60°
Period
1.90 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for INTERCOSMOS 24 across 148 days of archived orbital elements (150 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
-0.6 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
502 × 2355 km
Apogee Perigee
Derived from our own archive of CelesTrak orbital elements, sampled every 3 hours. Short windows show drag and station-keeping; they are not a reentry prediction.
Launched with
One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 1989-080 (Tsiklon-3 | AUOS-Z-AV-IK 1).
- SL-14 R/B · 20262
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