Official name COSMOS 2549
Alternative name Cosmos-2549
Cospar ID 2021-008A
Norad ID 47546
Launch date 2021-02-02
Launch site PKMTR
Launch vehicle Soyuz-2-1b
Country/Organization Russia
Type application SIGINT
RCS size LARGE
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 103.09
Inclination (deg) 67.15
Perigee (km) 900
Apogee (km) 910
Eccentricity 0.00552486187845304
Mean motion (revs. per day) 13.9683771461829
Semi-Major axis (km) 7283.135
Raan (deg) 51.6054
Arg of perigee (deg) 280.3124
Shape Cyl + 2 Pan
Mass (kg) 6575
Diameter (m) 2.7
Height (m) 6.3
Span (m^2) 6.3
Contractors TsSKB-Progress (bus), KB Arsenal (payload)
Configuration Yantar bus
Power 2 deployable solar arrays, batteries

The Russian Lotos-S1 (14F145) satellites are one component of the next generation ELINT satellite system Liana. A development version was flown as Lotos-S (14F138).

The Liana system replaces replaces both the Tselina-2 with Lotos satellites and the naval US-PM with Pion-NKS (14F139) spacecraft.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
COSMOS 2502 2014-086A 2014-12-25 PKMTR Soyuz-2-1b
COSMOS 2524 2017-076A 2017-12-02 PKMTR Soyuz-2-1b
COSMOS 2528 2018-082A 2018-10-25 PKMTR Soyuz-2-1b
COSMOS 2549 2021-008A 2021-02-02 PKMTR Soyuz-2-1b
COSMOS 2554 2022-036A 2022-04-07 PKMTR Soyuz-2-1b
COSMOS 2570 2023-165A 2023-10-27 PKMTR Soyuz-2-1b with Kosmos 2571, Kosmos 2571 Subsat ?