COSMOS 2471 (GLONASS)

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COSMOS 2471 (GLONASS) is classified as:

Glonass Constellation

NORAD ID: 37372

Int'l Code: 2011-009A

Perigee: 19,117.3 km

Apogee: 19,155.8 km

Inclination: 65.9 °

Period: 675.7 minutes

Semi major axis: 25507 km

RCS: 3.9811 m² (large)

Launch date: February 26, 2011
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Launch site: PLESETSK MISSILE AND SPACE COMPLEX (PKMTR)

COSMOS 2471 is the first Glonass K satellite to be launched. The next-generation satellite is smaller than earlier platforms, will transmit more navigation signals and has a longer design life. The Glonass K satellite is expected to operate for 10 years and features five navigation channels, including a new civilian L-band signal. In an improvement over earlier Glonass satellites, the new craft are lighter and based on an unpressurized bus built by ISS Reshetnev. Unlike previous Glonass M satellites, which launch three at a time on Proton rockets from Kazakhstan, the new generation of navigation spacecraft will blast off on Soyuz boosters from Russia's northern space center.

1 37372U 11009A   20158.42974809 -.00000065 +00000-0 +00000-0 0  9994
2 37372 065.8598 028.1309 0007547 228.5779 305.1753 02.13107448072172

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC