Satellite · NORAD 44797 · COSPAR 2019-079A
COSMOS 2542
- Operator Russian Ministry of Defence
- Constellation Kosmos (Russian military / government)
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
97.63°
Period
87.6 min
87.6 min
Perigee
148km
Apogee
159km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 24 Oct 2023.· Metadata updated 9 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 24 Oct 2023 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Military
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
- Constellation membership derived
- Kosmos (Russian military / government) via name_pattern
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- COSMOS 2542Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- Russian Ministry of Defence
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 25 Nov 2019
- COSPAR launch id
- 2019-079
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome
Objects from the same launch · 4
- COSMOS 254344835PayloadDecayed
- VOLGA R/B44798Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-4 R/B44799Rocket bodyDecayed
- OBJECT E45915UnknownUnknown
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 44797
- COSPAR / international designator
- 2019-079A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JV78GQWBWXMF7PW029X
- Canonical slug
- cosmos-2542-44797
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Military) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.