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Kosmos 2448
(
Russian
:
Космос 2448
meaning
Cosmos 2448
) is one of a set of three
Russian
military
satellites
launched in 2008 as part of the
GLONASS
satellite navigation system. It was launched with
Kosmos 2447
and
Kosmos 2449
.
This satellite is a GLONASS-M satellite, also known as Uragan-M, and is numbered Uragan-M No. 728.
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Kosmos 2447/8/9 were launched from
Site 81/24
at
Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan. A
Proton-M
carrier rocket with a
Blok DM
upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 10:43 UTC on 25 December 2008. The launch successfully placed the satellites into
Medium Earth orbit
. It subsequently received its
Kosmos
designation, and the
international designator
2008-067C. The
United States Space Command
assigned it the
Satellite Catalog Number
33468.
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It is currently part of the GLONASS constellation in the first orbital plane, orbital slot 2. It started operation on 20 January 2009.
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
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