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COSMOS 2459 [GLONASS-M]
NonoperationalNavigationMEO
Broadcasts precise timing/positioning signals for global navigation (GNSS).
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 1, 2010 at 09:19 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M DM-2 Enhanced →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- 3 x Glonass-M (Kosmos 2459, Kosmos 2460, Kosmos 2461)
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 19,194 km
- Periapsis
- 19,063 km
- Inclination
- 65.44°
- Orbital period
- 675.69 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Ministry of Defense
- Manufacturer
- ISS Reshetnev
- Users
- Military/Commercial
- Launch mass
- 1,415 kg
- Power
- 1,000 W
- Design lifetime
- 7 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2010-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 36400
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.3792 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational