Satellite · NORAD 24435 · COSPAR 1996-058A
EXPRESS 2
- Operator Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Constellation —
- Country Russia
Altitude now
—
no element set
Velocity
—
Inclination
14.56°
Period
23.9 h
1,436.1 min
Perigee
35,748km
Apogee
35,825km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file.· Metadata updated 12 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — no public orbital element set exists for this object (it may be classified, untracked or too small to catalogue).
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Communications
- Object type
- Payload
- SATCAT ops status
- Non-operational [-]
- Radar cross-section
- 10.0 m²
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- EXPRESS 2Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- CIS · Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR)
- Country
- Russia RU
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 26 Sept 1996
- COSPAR launch id
- 1996-058
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)
Objects from the same launch · 5
- SL-12 PLAT24437DebrisDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(1)24436Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(2)24438Rocket bodyInactive
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)24454Rocket bodyDecayed
- SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)24503Rocket bodyDecayed
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
- 24435
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1996-058A
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JQ3BVJD1MMR2SC1GAG9
- Canonical slug
- express-2-24435
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Communications) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.