Kosmos 2480, a Yantar-4K2M (Kobalt-M) film-return military reconnaissance satellite, launched from Plesetsk for the Russian Ministry of Defence, imaging targets from low Earth orbit before its capsule mission concluded later in 2012.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 698th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 2012, 14:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2012-024
- Launches in 2012
- 25th of 78
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