COSMOS 2548

NORAD 47230· COSPAR 2020-091D· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· LEO

Launch

Launched on Dec 3, 2020 from 43/3 (43L), Russia aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M30, Gonets-M31, Gonets-M32 →

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

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 15:22 UTC

Orbit class

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

Operator

Russia / Soviet Union (military)

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Dec 3, 2020

Mass

—

Apogee

1,511 km

Perigee

1,487 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.

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Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2548 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

1487 × 1511 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

3 other catalogued objects still in orbit from launch 2020-091 (Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M30, Gonets-M31, Gonets-M32).

GONETS-M 20 · 47227
GONETS-M 21 · 47228
GONETS-M 22 · 47229

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