COSMOS 2508 (RODNIK-S *)

NORAD 40921· COSPAR 2015-050B· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO

Launch

Launched on Sep 23, 2015 from 133/3 (133L), Russia aboard a Rokot/Briz-KM.

Rokot / Briz-KM | 3 x Strela-3M (Kosmos 2507, Kosmos 2508, Kosmos 2509) →

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

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 13:55 UTC

Orbit class

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

Operator

Russia / Soviet Union (military)

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Sep 23, 2015

Mass

—

Apogee

1,510 km

Perigee

1,488 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.

See all GLONASS satellites →

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2508 (RODNIK-S *) 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

1488 × 1510 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 2015-050 (Rokot / Briz-KM | 3 x Strela-3M (Kosmos 2507, Kosmos 2508, Kosmos 2509)).

COSMOS 2507 (RODNIK-S *) · 40920
COSMOS 2509 (RODNIK-S *) · 40922

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