EXPRESS-MD2
Launch
Launched on Aug 6, 2012 from 81/24 (81P), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M Enhanced.
Proton-M / Briz-M Enhanced | Telkom-3 & Ekspress MD2 →Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 11:55 UTC
Orbit class
MEO — Medium Earth (2,000–30,000 km, e.g. GPS / Galileo)
Operator
Russian / Soviet Government
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Aug 6, 2012
Mass
—
Apogee
2,652 km
Perigee
264 km
Inclination
49.82°
Period
1.92 h
Altitude history
Apogee and perigee for EXPRESS-MD2 across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Decaying
Change
-22.9 km
Rate
-0.39 km/day
Now
264 × 2652 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.
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