Spacetrack Directory Name | COSMOS 2483 |
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Orbit launches | 2013-01-15 (11 years ago) |
Days in orbit | 4331 |
Country/organisation of origin | Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS) |
Starting point | PLMSC (Plesetsk Missile and Space Complex, Russia) |
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Perigee | 1476 km |
Apogee | 1504 km |
Orbit slope (inclination) | 82.5° |
Laps per day | 12 |
Orbit | LEO (Polar) |
Height COSMOS 2483 | 1501.59 km |
Kosmos 2483 (Russian: ?????? 2483 meaning Cosmos 2483) is a Russian military store-dump communications satellite launched in 2013, together with Kosmos 2484 and Kosmos 2482.
This satellite is a Strela-3M/Rodnik satellite, a modification of the civilian Gonets satellites.Kosmos 2483 was launched from site 133/3 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. A rokot carrier rocket with a Briz-KM upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 16:24 UTC on 15 January 2013. The launch successfully placed the satellite into low earth orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2013-001B. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 39058.The launch was postponed from 8 December 2012 and was the first launch of a Rokot since the 28 July 2012 launch of Kosmos 2481, another Rodnik.