COSMOS 2541 (EKS 3)

NORAD 44552· COSPAR 2019-065A· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· HEO

Launch

Launched on Sep 26, 2019 from 43/4 (43R), Russia aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | EKS 3 (Tundra 3) (Kosmos 2541) →

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

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-22 21:26 UTC

Orbit class

HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)

Operator

Russia / Soviet Union (military)

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Sep 26, 2019

Mass

—

Apogee

37,494 km

Perigee

2,881 km

Inclination

62.71°

Period

11.97 h

Part of the GLONASS constellation · this satellite is one of 761

Russian satellite navigation system. ~24 active sats in MEO at ~19,100 km.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2541 (EKS 3) across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

+0.5 km

Rate

+0.01 km/day

Now

2881 × 37494 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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