Tundra
Spacecraft · Russia
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Russian early warning satellite, launched from 2015 into Molniya orbits, replacing the earlier Oko series.
EKS (Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Sistema, Unified Space System, early warning satellites to replace the US-KMO and US-K satellites of the Oko program. Six satellites were planned. The satellite was designed as early as 1998, but technical, legal, and funding problems delayed deployment by nearly 20 years.
More at: Tundra (EKS, 14F142).
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2015 November 17
06:34 GMT - . Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Complex: Plesetsk LC43/4. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-2-1B.- Cosmos 2510 - . Nation: Russia. Class: Surveillance. Type: Early warning satellite. Spacecraft Bus: USP (Victoria). Spacecraft: Tundra. USAF Sat Cat: 41032 . COSPAR: 2015-066A. Apogee: 38,551 km (23,954 mi). Perigee: 1,625 km (1,009 mi). Inclination: 63.80 deg. The first EKS early warning satellite, launched into a Molniya orbit. The satellite, developed by Energiya and Kometa, replaced the defunct Lavochkin/Kometa 'Oko' system..
2017 May 25
06:32 GMT - . Launch Site: Plesetsk. Launch Complex: Plesetsk LC43/4. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-2-1B.- Cosmos 2518 - . Payload: EKS No. 2L. Nation: Russia. Spacecraft: Tundra. USAF Sat Cat: 42719 . COSPAR: 2017-027A. Apogee: 38,092 km (23,669 mi). Perigee: 2,267 km (1,408 mi). Inclination: 63.37 deg. Period: 717.86 min. See Kosmos 2518 (Tundra #2, EKS #2). Second Tundra EKS missile early warning satellite..