SKIF-D

NORAD 54153· COSPAR 2022-139D· Active satellite· Other / Unclassified· MEO

Launch

Launched on Oct 22, 2022 from Cosmodrome Site 1S, Russia aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M33, Gonets-M34, Gonets-M35 & Skif-D →

Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-06 04:47 UTC

Orbit class

MEO — Medium Earth (2,000–30,000 km, e.g. GPS / Galileo)

Operator

Russian / Soviet Government

Country

Russia

Manufacturer

—

Launched

Oct 22, 2022

Mass

—

Apogee

8,077 km

Perigee

8,054 km

Inclination

89.95°

Period

4.80 h

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for SKIF-D across 14 days of archived orbital elements (15 element sets, one per day).

Trend

Stable

Change

+0.1 km

Rate

+0.01 km/day

Now

8054 × 8077 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 2022-139 (Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Gonets-M33, Gonets-M34, Gonets-M35 & Skif-D).

GONETS-M 23 · 54150
GONETS-M 24 · 54151
GONETS-M 25 · 54152

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