Military
NORAD ID: 29260
Int'l Code: 2006-030A
Perigee: 1,432.4 km
Apogee: 38,967.7 km
Inclination: 65.2 °
Period: 718.4 minutes
Semi major axis: 26571 km
Launch date: July 21, 2006
Source: Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) (CIS)
Comments: Cosmos-2422 is deployed in an orbital plane that is located between those occupied by two other US-KS satellites on highly-elliptical orbits -- Cosmos-2388 and Cosmos-2393, both of which appear to be operational. This may indicate that the launch of Cosmos-2422 is supposed to upgrade the current constellation rather than replace one of the satellites.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 29260U 06030A 13143.82592789 .00001243 00000-0 10000-3 0 3202
2 29260 065.1731 022.1130 7063182 268.6606 033.3448 02.00442017 50127
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for COSMOS 2422
