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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
COSMOS 2596 (708K)
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Live · TLE epoch 2026-09-08 01:56 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
19,168 km
Perigee
19,106 km
Inclination
64.58°
Period
11.26 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.

Altitude history

Apogee and perigee for COSMOS 2596 (708K) across 103 days of archived orbital elements (105 element sets, one per day).

Trend
Stable
Change
+0.0 km
Rate
+0.00 km/day
Now
19106 × 19168 km
191371916819106May 28Sep 9
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).

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