| Kosmos 2482 | |
| Mission Type: | Communications |
| Operator: | Russian Aerospace Defence Forces |
| Cospar Id: | 2013-001A |
| Satcat: | 39057 |
| Spacecraft Type: | Strela-3M |
| Manufacturer: | Reshetnev ISS |
| Launch Date: | UTC |
| Launch Site: | Plesetsk 133/3 |
| Orbit Reference: | Geocentric |
| Orbit Regime: | Low Earth |
| Apsis: | gee |
Kosmos 2482 (Russian: Космос 2482 meaning Cosmos 2482) is a Russian military store-dump communications satellite launched in 2013, together with Kosmos 2483 and Kosmos 2484.
This satellite is a Strela-3M/Rodnik satellite, a modification of the civilian Gonets satellites.
Kosmos 2482 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 2013-001A. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 39057.
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.[1]