Glonass-K1 No. 18 (Kosmos 2595) & Kosmos 2596
This mission is complete.
The mission
Glonass-K1 are the third generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system comparable to the similar GPS and Galileo systems. This generation improves on accuracy, power consumption and design life. Each satellite is unpressurized and weighs 935 kg, and has an operational lifetime of 10 years. This launch also carries Mozhayets-6 (Kosmos 2596), a small experimental satellite built by the Mozhaiskiy Military Space Academy of St. Petersburg.
Mission timeline
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
43/3 (43L)
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Latitude
- 62.927°N
- Longitude
- 40.450°E
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
Clear — tracking no weather issues at this time.
- Primary concern
- No weather issues
- Rule count
- 0
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
02:10 AM UTC – 03:30 AM UTC
Vehicle & provider
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.