Cosmos 2499

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Mission details:

• The Cosmos-2499 satellite launched in May continues manuevering in orbit. On Oct 28, 2014 at about 1035 UTC the satellite raised its orbit from 927 x 1485 km to 1054 x 1493 km. Then on Nov 9 at about 0540 UTC it made a final burn to complete its rendezvous with the Briz rocket stage that launched it, in an 1151 x 1502 km orbit.
• AMSAT report that Cosmos-2499 activated an amateur radio payload, RS-47, on Nov 30, 2014. Cosmos-2499 remains in a similar orbit to the Briz-M rocket stage after its Nov 9 rendezvous, but the two satellites are now drifting slowly apart.
  The earlier mystery satellite in the same series, Cosmos-2491, has also activated an amateur radio payload (RS-46).