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COSMOS 2590

NORAD 64527· COSPAR 2025-131D· Active satellite· Military & Reconnaissance· HEO
Launch
Launched on Jun 19, 2025 from 35/1, Russia aboard a Angara A5/Briz-M.
Angara A5/Briz-M | Kosmos 2589 & 2590 →
GLONASS satellite (representative)
Representative GLONASS image · Patrick G. · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-23 20:32 UTC
Orbit class
HEO — Highly Elliptical (Molniya, Tundra, GTO)
Operator
Russia / Soviet Union (military)
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
—
Launched
Jun 19, 2025
Mass
—
Apogee
51,151 km
Perigee
20,474 km
Inclination
0.97°
Period
23.95 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 2590 across 59 days of archived orbital elements (60 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Raising
Change
+1.8 km
Rate
+0.03 km/day
Now
20474 × 51151 km
358105117620445Aug 26Oct 24
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

One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2025-131 (Angara A5/Briz-M | Kosmos 2589 & 2590).

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