COSMOS 2596 (708K)
NORAD 65590· COSPAR 2025-206B· Navigation· MEO
Launch
Launched on Sep 13, 2025 from 43/3 (43L), Russia aboard a Soyuz 2.1b Fregat.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 18 (Kosmos 2595) & Kosmos 2596 →
Live · TLE epoch 2026-10-22 08:04 UTC
Orbit class
MEO — Medium Earth (2,000–30,000 km, e.g. GPS / Galileo)
Operator
Russian Space Forces
Country
Russia
Manufacturer
JSC Information Satellite Systems Reshetnev
Launched
Sep 13, 2025
Mass
962 kg
Apogee
19,171 km
Perigee
19,103 km
Inclination
64.56°
Period
11.26 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 2596 (708K) across 149 days of archived orbital elements (151 element sets, one per day).
Trend
Stable
Change
+0.0 km
Rate
+0.00 km/day
Now
19103 × 19171 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
One other catalogued object still in orbit from launch 2025-206 (Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat | Glonass-K1 No. 18 (Kosmos 2595) & Kosmos 2596).
- COSMOS 2595 (MOZHAETS 6) · 65589
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