Kosmos 2452 is a Russian military communications satellite. It was launched July 6, 2009, at 1:26 UTC. It was launched by a Rokot launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to a 1,400 km circular orbit and a high inclination (~82 degrees).
It was the second Strela 3M satellite and was launched with two other satellites. Strela-3M (also known as Rodnik-S) is an improved version of the Strela-3 military communications satellite.
Satellites of this type record digital information and then forward the stored data when the satellite is in view of a receiving antenna. This approach is used for communications in remote area lacking more traditional ground-based communications channels.
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- TerreStar-1
- Kosmos 2451, Kosmos 2452, Kosmos 2453
- RazakSAT
- STS-127 (JEM-EF, AggieSat 2, BEVO-1, Castor, Pollux)
- Kosmos 2454, Sterkh No.11L
- Progress M-67
- DubaiSat-1, Deimos-1, UK-DMC 2, Nanosat-1B, AprizeSat-3, AprizeSat-4
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- USA-207 / PAN
- HTV-1
- Meteor-M No.1, BLITS, Sterkh-2, SumbandilaSat, UGATUSAT, Universitetsky-Tatyana-2
- Nimiq 5
- Oceansat-2, Rubin 9.1, Rubin 9.2, BeeSat-1, UWE-2, ITU-pSat1, SwissCube-1
- USA-208 / STSS-Demo 1, USA-209 / STSS-Demo 2
- Soyuz TMA-16
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Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses). |