COSMOS 2491 (RS46)
NORAD 39497 · Payload · In orbit since 2013
View in the 3D atlas →- Launched
- 2013-12-25 · Plesetsk, Russia
- Country / operator
- CIS (Russia / CIS)
- Object type
- Payload
- Purpose
- Technology demonstration
- Mass
- 100 kg
- Size
- 1 × 0.4 m
- Orbit class
- LEO (< 2,000 km)
- Perigee × Apogee
- 1,481 × 1,503 km
- Inclination
- 82.5°
- Period
- 115.6 min
- Eccentricity
- 0.0014
- Orbit data
- Reconstructed from catalog orbit
Mass, size and purpose from GCAT (J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0).
Same launch
Other objects cataloged from the same launch day and site: co-passengers and the rocket body.