Cosmos 2474

Launch data: Designation  37829 / 11055A Launch date  02 Oct 2011 - 20:15 UT Launch site  Plesetsk, LC-43/4 Launch vehicle  Soyuz-2-1B Fregat Mission  Militaryt/Commerc.: Navigation Satellite type  Uragan-M #33 MEO Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  19126 x 19158 km Eccentricity  6,48E+01 Inclination  64.82 deg Period  676.2 min

Spacecraft data:

Mission details:

• "The Soyuz 2-1b rocket lifted off at 2015 GMT (4:15 p.m. EDT) on Oct 2, 2011 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Launch occurred at 12:15 a.m. Moscow time.
• The rocket's three core stages finished their work in less than 10 minutes, then a Fregat upper stage fired three times to reach a circular orbit almost 12,000 miles [19,312 km] above Earth.
  The Fregat stage deployed the 3,119-pound [1,415-kg] Glonass-M No. 42 (Uragan-M No. 742) spacecraft at 2347 GMT (7:47 p.m. EDT), and ground controllers communicated with the satellite to verify it was in good health
• The Soyuz-2-1B rocket put the Fregat in an approximately 60 x 220 km orbit from which it maneuvered to 220 x 220 km, 250 x 19100 km and then to the deployment orbit of 19235 x 19667 km x 64.8 deg.