COSMOS 2481

NORAD 38733· COSPAR 2012-041A· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO

Launch

Launched on Jul 28, 2012 from 133/3 (133L), Russia aboard a Rokot/Briz-KM.

Rokot / Briz-KM | Gonets M-13, Gonets M-15, Strela-3M (Kosmos-2481) & Yubileyniy 2 (MiR) →

GLONASS satellite (representative) — Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:27 UTC

Orbit class

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

Operator

Russia / Soviet Union (military)

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Jul 28, 2012

Mass

—

Apogee

1,515 km

Perigee

1,487 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.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2481 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

1487 × 1515 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

2 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2012-041 (Rokot / Briz-KM | Gonets M-13, Gonets M-15, Strela-3M (Kosmos-2481) & Yubileyniy 2 (MiR)).

GONETS-M 3 · 38734
GONETS-M 4 · 38736

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