Mission type | Weather |
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Operator | Roskosmos |
COSPAR ID | 2011-001A |
SATCAT no. | 37344 |
Mission duration | 13 years, 10 months and 4 days (in orbit) |
Spacecraft properties | |
Bus | Navigator |
Manufacturer | NPO Lavochkin |
Launch mass | 1,740 kilograms (3,840 lb) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 20 January 2011, 12:29:02 | UTC
Rocket | Zenit-3F |
Launch site | Baikonur 45/1 |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Geostationary |
Longitude | 14.5° West[1] |
Semi-major axis | 42,165.19 kilometres (26,200.23 mi)[2] |
Eccentricity | 7.61E-05[2] |
Perigee altitude | 35,790 kilometres (22,240 mi)[2] |
Apogee altitude | 35,797 kilometres (22,243 mi)[2] |
Inclination | 0.68 degrees[2] |
Period | 1436.17 minutes[2] |
Epoch | 24 January 2015, 03:02:23 UTC[2] |
Elektro-L No.1 (Russian: Электро-L), also known as Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite No.2 or GOMS No.2, is a Russian geostationary weather satellite which was launched in 2011. The first Elektro-L spacecraft to fly, it became the first Russian geostationary weather satellite to be launched since Elektro No.1 in 1994.