COSMOS 2552 (EKS 5)

NORAD 49503· COSPAR 2021-113A· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· HEO

Launch

Launched on Nov 25, 2021 from 43/4 (43R), Russia aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | EKS 5 (Tundra 5) (Kosmos 2552) →

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

Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-22 01:22 UTC

Orbit class

HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)

Operator

Russia / Soviet Union (military)

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Nov 25, 2021

Mass

—

Apogee

37,171 km

Perigee

3,206 km

Inclination

62.82°

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 2552 (EKS 5) across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Raising

Change

+2.8 km

Rate

+0.05 km/day

Now

3206 × 37171 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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