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COSMOS 2478 [GLONASS-M]
NonoperationalNavigationMEO
Broadcasts precise timing/positioning signals for global navigation (GNSS).
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 28, 2011 at 08:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b Fregat →
- Operator
- Russian Space Forces
- Mission
- Glonass-M (Kosmos 2478)
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- MEO
- Apoapsis
- 19,179 km
- Periapsis
- 19,095 km
- Inclination
- 65.47°
- Orbital period
- 676.01 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-071A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37938
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 4.0968 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational