Mission type Navigation SATCAT no. 39620 Spacecraft GLONASS No. 754 Inclination 64.82° Launch mass 1,414 kg | COSPAR ID 2014-012A Website GLONASS status Inclination 64.82° Period 11 hours Launch date 23 March 2014 | |
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Operator Russian Aerospace Defence Forces Launch site Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 Similar Kosmos 2501, Kosmos 2499, Kosmos 2459 | ||
Kosmos 2494 (Russian: Космос 2494 meaning Space 2494) is a Russian military satellite launched in 2014 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system.
This satellite is a GLONASS-M satellite, also known as Uragan-M, and is numbered Uragan-M No. 754.
Kosmos 2494 was launched from Site 43/4 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. A Soyuz-2-1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 22:54 UTC on 23 March 2014. The launch successfully placed the satellite into a Medium Earth orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2014-012A. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 39620.
The satellite is in orbital plane 3, in orbital slot 18. As of April 2014 it remains in service.