COSMOS 2278

NORAD 23087· COSPAR 1994-023A· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO

Launch

Launched on Apr 23, 1994 from 45/1, Kazakhstan aboard a Zenit-2.

Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 15 →

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Orbit class

LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)

Operator

Russia / Soviet Union (military)

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Apr 23, 1994

Mass

—

Apogee

854 km

Perigee

844 km

Inclination

71.05°

Period

1.70 h

Part of the GLONASS constellation · this satellite is one of 758

Russian satellite navigation system. ~24 active sats in MEO at ~19,100 km.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2278 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

-0.1 km

Rate

-0.00 km/day

Now

844 × 854 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 1994-023 (Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 15).

SL-16 R/B · 23088

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