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COSMOS 2453

NORAD 35500· COSPAR 2009-036C· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO
Launch
Launched on Jul 6, 2009 from 133/3 (133L), Russia aboard a Rokot/Briz-KM.
Rokot / Briz-KM | Strela-3 140 & 141
GLONASS satellite (representative)
Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:17 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
Russia / Soviet Union (military)
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
Launched
Jul 6, 2009
Mass
Apogee
1,510 km
Perigee
1,499 km
Inclination
82.49°
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 2453 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
1499 × 1510 km
150515101499Aug 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 2009-036 (Rokot / Briz-KM | Strela-3 140 & 141).

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