Kosmos 2483 Explained

Kosmos 2483
Mission Type:Communications
Operator:Russian Aerospace Defence Forces
Cospar Id:2013-001B
Satcat:39058
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 2483 (Russian: Космос 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.[1]

See also

References

  1. Web site: Rodnik military communications satellites. russianspaceweb.com. May 8, 2023.

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