Kosmos 2484 (russian: Космос 2484 meaning ''Cosmos 2484'') is a Russian military store-dump communications

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launched in 2013, together with Kosmos 2483 and Kosmos 2482. This satellite is a Strela-3M/Rodnik satellite, a modification of the civilian Gonets satellites. Kosmos 2484 was launched from site 133/3 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. A rokot carrier rocket with a

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upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 16:24 UTC on 15 January 2013. The launch successfully placed the satellite into

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. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2013-001C. The

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(the successor of the United States Space Command) assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 39059. The launch was postponed from 8 December 2012 and was the first launch of a Rokot since the 28 July 2012 launch of Kosmos 2481, another Rodnik.

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