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Orbital elements based on amateur observations | Sun-synchronous Satellites by LTDN - Russia
This a list of satellites in sun-synchronous orbit operated by Russia ordered by LTDN - Local Time at the Descending Node. Names are not necessarily those by which they are known in the NORAD catalogue used by SpaceTrack.
It is notable that the Russian sun-synchronous fleet is quite small. None of the active satellites appearing here date from the Soviet era.
The list is a snapshot and is updated daily. The measure that results in an entry in this table is that the drift rate of LTDN (Local Time at the Descending Node) is no more than twenty four minutes each year. Some satellites may have higher drift rates but they may still be acceptable to their owners/operators. They do not appear here. On the converse, although a satellite is in a sun-synchronous orbit, it is not necessarily active.
LTDN |
Satellite |
Cat no |
Desig- nation |
Orbit Epoch |
Orbit |
00:21 | Canopus-Vulcan 1 | 38707 | 2012-039A | 2022 Aug 15 | 497 x 499 km, 94.6 min, 97°.5 | 01:43 | Resurs-O1 4 (Resurs-O1 #4L) | 25394 | 1998-043A | 2022 Aug 15 | 810 x 811 km, 101.1 min, 98°.7 | 02:15 | Cosmos 2441 (Persona 14F137 № 1) | 33272 | 2008-037A | 2022 Aug 15 | 708 x 731 km, 99.2 min, 98°.2 | 02:55 | Meteor M2-2 | 44387 | 2019-038A | 2022 Aug 15 | 811 x 815 km, 101.1 min, 98°.7 | 03:11 | Rubin 8/PSLV | 32792 | 2008-021K | 2022 Aug 15 | 610 x 647 km, 97.3 min, 98°.0 | 03:19 | BLITS (Ball Lens In [The] Space) | 35871 | | 2022 Aug 15 | 816 x 822 km, 101.3 min, 98°.6 | 03:25 | Tatyana 2 (RS-38) | 35869 | 2009-049E | 2022 Aug 15 | 813 x 821 km, 101.2 min, 98°.5 | 03:28 | Meteor M-1 | 35865 | 2009-049A | 2022 Aug 15 | 815 x 820 km, 101.2 min, 98°.5 | 06:16 | Cosmos 2540 (Geo-IK-2 № 13/Musson 2-3) | 44517 | 2019-057A | 2022 Aug 15 | 942 x 944 km, 103.9 min, 99°.3 | 06:23 | Cosmos 2517 (Geo-IK-2 № 12/Musson 2-2) | 41579 | 2016-034A | 2022 Aug 15 | 942 x 944 km, 103.9 min, 99°.2 | 06:24 | Cosmos 2512 (KYuA-1) | 41099 | 2015-071B | 2022 Aug 15 | 676 x 687 km, 98.4 min, 98°.1 | 08:30 | Resurs-O1 3 (Resurs-O1 №3L) | 23342 | 1994-074A | 2022 Aug 15 | 629 x 631 km, 97.3 min, 97°.8 | 08:40 | Cosmos 2537 | 44422 | 2019-039B | 2022 Aug 15 | 594 x 606 km, 96.7 min, 97°.7 | 08:57 | Cosmos 2538 | 44423 | 2019-039C | 2022 Aug 15 | 583 x 596 km, 96.5 min, 97°.8 | 08:59 | Cosmos 2535 | 44421 | 2019-039A | 2022 Aug 15 | 602 x 616 km, 96.9 min, 97°.8 | 09:12 | Resurs-P (Resurs-P №1) | 39186 | 2013-030A | 2022 Aug 15 | 441 x 464 km, 93.6 min, 97°.1 | 09:22 | Cosmos 2506 (Persona 14F137 №3) | 40699 | 2015-029A | 2022 Aug 15 | 709 x 720 km, 99.1 min, 98°.3 | 09:27 | Cosmos 2536 | 44424 | 2019-039D | 2022 Aug 15 | 525 x 612 km, 96.0 min, 97°.8 | 11:00 | Resurs-P 3 (Resurs-P №3) | 41386 | 2016-016A | 2022 Aug 15 | 457 x 463 km, 93.8 min, 97°.2 | 11:09 | Resurs-P 2 (Resurs-P №2 ) | 40360 | 2014-087A | 2022 Aug 15 | 449 x 460 km, 93.7 min, 97°.2 | 12:06 | Cosmos 2558 | 53323 | 2022-089A | 2022 Aug 15 | 435 x 450 km, 93.4 min, 97°.2 | 13:47 | Cosmos upper stage (Mozhayets 5/RS-25) | 28898 | 2005-043G | 2022 Aug 15 | 676 x 705 km, 98.6 min, 98°.2 | 14:09 | Larets | 27944 | 2003-042F | 2022 Aug 15 | 673 x 692 km, 98.4 min, 98°.2 | 14:49 | Reflector | 27005 | 2001-056E | 2022 Aug 15 | 982 x 1011 km, 105.0 min, 99°.6 | 14:53 | COMPASS 1 (Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite) | 27002 | 2001-056B | 2022 Aug 15 | 983 x 1013 km, 105.1 min, 99°.6 | 14:57 | Mozhayets 4 (RS-22) | 27939 | 2003-042A | 2022 Aug 15 | 660 x 679 km, 98.1 min, 98°.2 | 22:48 | OrbiCraft-Zorkiy | 47960 | 2021-022AE | 2022 Aug 15 | 529 x 555 km, 95.5 min, 97°.5 | 23:00 | Khayyam | 53370 | 2022-096A | 2022 Aug 15 | 492 x 494 km, 94.5 min, 97°.4 | 23:25 | Canopus-Vulcan IK | 42825 | 2017-042A | 2022 Aug 15 | 503 x 506 km, 94.7 min, 97°.4 | 23:25 | Canopus-Vulcan 3 | 43180 | 2018-014A | 2022 Aug 15 | 503 x 505 km, 94.7 min, 97°.4 | 23:25 | Canopus-Vulcan 4 | 43181 | 2018-014B | 2022 Aug 15 | 503 x 506 km, 94.7 min, 97°.4 | 23:25 | Canopus-Vulcan 5 | 43876 | 2018-111A | 2022 Aug 15 | 503 x 506 km, 94.7 min, 97°.4 | 23:25 | Canopus-Vulcan 6 | 43877 | 2018-111B | 2022 Aug 15 | 503 x 506 km, 94.7 min, 97°.4 |
For the satellites that do not have formal published elements, thanks go to the radio and visual amateur satellite trackers for their observing, and particularly to Mike McCants for archiving the derived orbits.
Updated: 2022 Aug 16, 05:48 UTC
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