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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 2026-09-09 11:54 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
19,167 km
Perigee
19,106 km
Inclination
65.62°
Period
11.26 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 2544 (759) across 104 days of archived orbital elements (106 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Stable
Change
-0.1 km
Rate
-0.00 km/day
Now
19106 × 19167 km
191371917219101May 28Sep 10
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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