Cosmos 2439

Launch data: Designation  08025C Launch date  23 May 2008 - 15:20 UT Launch site  Pl, LC-133/3 Launch vehicle  Rokot-KM Mission   Satellite type  Rodnik #4 Earth orbit on: Perigee / Apogee  1476 x 1510 km Eccentricity   Inclination  82.5 deg Period   min

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Mission details:

• Russia launched three Gonets-class low orbit communications satellites on May 23. Unusually, they were given Kosmos designations - they may actually be the Strela-3 military version of Gonets.
• The Gonets satellites are in a 1476 x 1510 km x 82.5 deg orbit; the depleted Briz stage is in a 1200 x 1506 km orbit.
• The launch also carried Yubilyeniy (Jubilee), a test satellite with an amateur radio payload to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Sputnik last year.