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Russian military satellite
Kosmos 2431
(
Russian
:
Космос 2431
meaning
Cosmos 2431
) is one of a set of three
Russian
military
satellites
launched in 2007 as part of the
GLONASS
satellite navigation system. It was launched with
Kosmos 2432
and
Kosmos 2433
.
This satellite is a GLONASS-M satellite, also known as Uragan-M, and is numbered Uragan-M No. 718.
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Kosmos 2431 / 2432 / 2433 were launched from
Site 81/24
at
Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan. A
Proton-K
carrier rocket with a
Blok DM
upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 07:35 UTC on 26 October 2007. The launch successfully placed the satellites into
Medium Earth orbit
. It subsequently received its
Kosmos
designation, and the
International Designator
2007-052C. The
United States Space Command
assigned it the
Satellite Catalog Number
32277.
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It is no longer part of the GLONASS constellation, but used to be in the third plane, orbital slot 17.
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March
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April
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- Soyuz TMA-10
- Anik F3
- Hai Yang 1B
- Compass-M1
- EgyptSat 1
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Saudisat-3
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SaudiComsat-3
,
SaudiComsat-4
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SaudiComsat-5
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SaudiComsat-6
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SaudiComsat-7
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CP-3
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CP-4
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CAPE-1
,
Libertad 1
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AeroCube 2
,
CSTB-1
,
MAST
- AGILE
,
AAM
- NFIRE
- AIM
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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