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COSMOS 2539

NORAD 44457· COSPAR 2019-048A· Active satellite· Communications· GEO
Launch
Launched on Aug 5, 2019 from 81/24 (81P), Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M Briz-M.
Proton-M/Briz-M | Blagovest No.14L (Kosmos 2539)
GLONASS satellite (representative)
Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 07:19 UTC
Orbit class
GEO — Geostationary (~35,786 km, equatorial)
Operator
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
JSC Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev
Launched
Aug 5, 2019
Mass
Apogee
35,796 km
Perigee
35,795 km
Inclination
0.01°
Period
23.94 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 2539 across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Stable
Change
-0.2 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
35795 × 35796 km
358023581535789May 28Sep 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.

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