Payload
COSMOS 2502
OperationalPayloadLEO
COSMOS 2502 is a Ministry of Defense payload satellite, launched on December 25, 2014 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 25, 2014 at 03:01 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
- Launched by
- Soyuz 2.1b →
- Operator
- Russian Aerospace Defence Forces
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 907 km
- Periapsis
- 895 km
- Inclination
- 67.15°
- Orbital period
- 103.02 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Ministry of Defense
- Manufacturer
- TsSKB-Progress Samara Space Center and KB Arsenal
- Users
- Military
- Launch mass
- 7,000 kg
- Detailed purpose
- Electronic Intelligence
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2014-086A
- NORAD catalog №
- 40358
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Radar cross-section
- 12.9348 m²
- Status
- Operational