TLEs out for three payloads and the Briz-M - nothing yet for a putative 4th payload.Briz-M in 1170 x 1504 km disposal orbit, rest in 1494 x 1506 km, so looks like mission success for the Gonets and Briz.I recall that Kosmos-2499 took a while to be discovered and cataloged.
Quote from: jcm on 03/31/2015 07:15 pmTLEs out for three payloads and the Briz-M - nothing yet for a putative 4th payload.Briz-M in 1170 x 1504 km disposal orbit, rest in 1494 x 1506 km, so looks like mission success for the Gonets and Briz.I recall that Kosmos-2499 took a while to be discovered and cataloged.Was the second special payload given a Kosmos designation?
Quote from: Star One on 03/31/2015 07:23 pmQuote from: jcm on 03/31/2015 07:15 pmTLEs out for three payloads and the Briz-M - nothing yet for a putative 4th payload.Briz-M in 1170 x 1504 km disposal orbit, rest in 1494 x 1506 km, so looks like mission success for the Gonets and Briz.I recall that Kosmos-2499 took a while to be discovered and cataloged.Was the second special payload given a Kosmos designation?yes, number is Kosmos-2504.
Short launch video...
Оказание услуг по подготовке и запуску РКН «Рокот» 14А05-АС11М № 72526 с блоком космических аппаратов 372 АС71М (КА «Гонец-М» № 21,22,23, КА14Ф153) с космодрома «Плесецк»
#Russia's mystery satellite comes back to life, supposedly! Details: http://russianspaceweb.com/Cosmos-2504.html#2017 … #Kosmos2504
Last year there were some reports that Cosmos 2504 had performed a relatively close (~1 km) approach to a piece from the Fengyin-1 #3 destruction. Has anyone identified which piece of debris this was, please? Of course the orbital inclination difference alone would have made any encounter a brief one.