LARETS

NORAD 27944· COSPAR 2003-042F· Active satellite· Science & Relay· SSO

Launch

Launched on Sep 27, 2003 from 132/1 (132L), Russia aboard a Kosmos-3M (11K65M).

Kosmos-3M | Mozhaets-4 →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-24 07:13 UTC

Orbit class

SSO — Sun-Synchronous (LEO at 96–102° inclination)

Operator

Russian / Soviet Government

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Sep 27, 2003

Mass

—

Apogee

693 km

Perigee

676 km

Inclination

98.43°

Period

1.64 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for LARETS across 148 days of archived orbital elements (149 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

-0.1 km

Rate

-0.00 km/day

Now

676 × 694 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 2003-042 (Kosmos-3M | Mozhaets-4).

MOZHAETS 4 (RS22) · 27939

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