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COSMOS 2544 (759)

NORAD 44850· COSPAR 2019-088A· Navigation· MEO
Launch
Launched on Dec 11, 2019 from 43/3 (43L), Russia aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Glonass-M No. 59 (Kosmos 2544) →
GLONASS satellite (representative)
Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-22 16:01 UTC
Orbit class
MEO — Medium Earth (2,000–30,000 km, e.g. GPS / Galileo)
Operator
Russia / Soviet Union (military)
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Dec 11, 2019
Mass
—
Apogee
19,170 km
Perigee
19,103 km
Inclination
65.64°
Period
11.26 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.

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2544 (759) across 149 days of archived orbital elements (151 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Stable
Change
-0.1 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
19103 × 19170 km
191371917219101May 28Oct 25
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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