Payload
COSMOS 2491 (RS46)
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2491 (RS46) is a Russia (CIS / former USSR) payload satellite, launched on December 25, 2013 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 25, 2013 at 12:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Rokot/Briz-KM →
- Operator
- Russian Aerospace Defence Forces
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 1,503 km
- Periapsis
- 1,480 km
- Inclination
- 82.48°
- Orbital period
- 115.8 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 50 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-076E
- NORAD catalog №
- 39497
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.3361 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational