COSMOS 2461 (GLONASS)
2010-03-01
Satellite information COSMOS 2461 (GLONASS)
| Spacetrack Directory Name | COSMOS 2461 (GLONASS) |
| Alternative name | GLONASS-M 26, GN 735, SLOT 24 |
| Group | GLONASS |
| Orbit launches |
2010-03-01 |
| Country/organisation of origin | Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS) |
| Starting point | TYMSC (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan) |
| Categories | |
| Perigee | 19082 km |
| Apogee | 19178 km |
Additional information COSMOS 2461 (GLONASS)
Kosmos 2461 (Russian: ?????? 2461 meaning Cosmos 2461) is one of a set of three Russian military satellites launched in 2010 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system. It was launched with Kosmos 2459 and Kosmos 2460
This satellite is a GLONASS-M satellite, also known as Uragan-M, and is numbered Uragan-M No. 735.Kosmos 2459/60/61 were launched from Site 81/24 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Proton-M carrier rocket with a Blok DM upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 21:19 UTC on 1 March 2010. The launch successfully placed the satellites into Medium Earth orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2010-007B. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 36401.It is in the third orbital plane of the GLONASS constellation, in orbital slot 24. It started operations on 28 March 2010.
