Cosmos 2502

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Mission details:

• Russia launched a military satellite on Dec 25, 2014 with a Soyuz-2-1b from Plesetsk. The satellite entered a 240 x 899 km x 67.1 deg orbit.
• The satellite is believed to be the second Lotos-S signals intelligence satellite, Lotos-S No. 802. The Lotos-S satellites have a payload similar to the old Tselina-2, but using a Yantar-type spacecraft bus from TsSKB-Progress instead of the Tselina-2's Okean class bus from the Ukranian Yuzhnoe organization. The spacecraft circularized its orbit to 899 x 909km on Dec 26, joining Lotos-S No. 801 which is in a 903 x 907 km x 67 deg orbit.

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