Kosmos 2458

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This satellite is a GLONASS-M satellite, also known as Uragan-M, and is numbered Uragan-M No. 734.[1][4]

Kosmos 2456/7/8 were launched from Site 81/24 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Proton-M carrier rocket with a Blok DM upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 10:38 UTC on 14 December 2009. The launch successfully placed the satellites into Medium Earth orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2009-070C. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Numbers 36113.[1][4]

It is in the first orbital plane of the GLONASS constellation, in orbital slot 5. It started operations on 10 January 2010.[5][6]

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