Communications
GONETS-M 6
Russian Store-and-Forward Messaging · Russian Satellite Communications Company
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One of the Gonets-M constellation's messaging satellites, continuing a Russian satellite communications tradition dating back to the Soviet-era Gonets-D system. The constellation supports emergency communications, environmental monitoring, and asset tracking across Russia's enormous and often infrastructure-poor territory.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 921–941 mi (1,483–1,514 km)
- Inclination
- 82.5°
- One orbit
- 115.8 minutes12.4 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 39250
- Int’l designator
- 2013-048B
- Launched
- 2013
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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