Communications
GONETS-M 5
Russian Store-and-Forward Messaging · Russian Satellite Communications Company
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Part of Russia's Gonets-M satellite network, providing message relay for remote monitoring stations across Russia's Arctic and Siberian territories. As Russia's Northern Sea Route sees increasing commercial shipping traffic due to melting Arctic ice, Gonets satellites provide a critical, sovereign communications backbone for vessels transiting a region where Western satellite services carry geopolitical risk.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 923–939 mi (1,486–1,512 km)
- Inclination
- 82.5°
- One orbit
- 115.8 minutes12.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 39249
- Int’l designator
- 2013-048A
- Launched
- 2013
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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