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COSMOS 2489 (RODNIK-S 8)

NORAD 39484· COSPAR 2013-076B· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO
Launch
Launched on Dec 25, 2013 from 133/3 (133L), Russia aboard a Rokot/Briz-KM.
Rokot / Briz-KM | 3 x Strela-3M (Kosmos-2488, Kosmos-2489, Kosmos-2490) & Kosmos-2491
GLONASS satellite (representative)
Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:39 UTC
Orbit class
LEO — Low Earth Orbit (circular, < 2,000 km)
Operator
Russia / Soviet Union (military)
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
Launched
Dec 25, 2013
Mass
Apogee
1,515 km
Perigee
1,483 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 2489 (RODNIK-S 8) 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
1483 × 1515 km
149915151483Aug 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

2 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2013-076 (Rokot / Briz-KM | 3 x Strela-3M (Kosmos-2488, Kosmos-2489, Kosmos-2490) & Kosmos-2491).

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