Kosmos 2470

Geo - IK -2 (Russian Гео - ИК -2, also Musson -2, GRAU index: 14F31, Cosmos - 2470 ) is the name for Russian Erdvermessungssatelliten.

They are followers of the Geo - IK series. The first satellite of the new series ( Geo - IK -2 1 ) was launched on February 1, 2011 at 14:00:14 UTC with a rocket of the type Rockot with Briz- M upper stage of the launch site Plesetsk 133/3 of the orbit, being but not the planned orbit was achieved. He can no longer achieve this with their own engines. The development of satellite launches in 1982 with NPO Prikladnoi Mechaniki. The satellite should be based on the Estapheta satellite bus, about 4.5 t be heavy and a cylindrical pressure vessel with five meters high and two meters in diameter around to be built. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the development but were stopped. In 2001 the development of a substantially smaller version is resumed when the pressure vessel was reduced to 1.3 m in diameter and a weight of 900 kg. Many systems (such as the power supply ) have been adopted by the GLONASS -M satellites. The main instrument on board is a Sadko altimeter the French company Thales Alenia Space, which was from the Poseidon -2 altimeter, which was installed on the French Jason - 1 satellite, developed. Geo - IK - 2 carries in addition, a Doppler system, laser reflectors and a rangefinder. The second satellite Geo - IK -2 2 is to have a Miram microwave radio altimeter.

Since the Briz- KM upper stage not go as planned struck a second time, the satellite remained on a transfer orbit. Russian Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin said that the satellite in this orbit is not usable.