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COSMOS 2391

NORAD 27465· COSPAR 2002-036B· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO
Launch
Launched on Jul 8, 2002 from 132/1 (132L), Russia aboard a Kosmos-3M (11K65M).
Kosmos-3M | Strela-3 131 & 132
GLONASS satellite (representative)
Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:21 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
Russia / Soviet Union (military)
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
Launched
Jul 8, 2002
Mass
Apogee
1,512 km
Perigee
1,469 km
Inclination
82.48°
Period
1.93 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.

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2391 across 14 days of archived orbital elements (15 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Stable
Change
-0.0 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
1469 × 1512 km
149015121469Aug 26Sep 9
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 2002-036 (Kosmos-3M | Strela-3 131 & 132).

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