The satellite was launched on May 23, 2014, from Plesetsk, Russia on a Rokot/Briz-KM launch vehicle. Following launch the spacecraft was provisionally described by the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office as Object E until its identity was confirmed.NORAD tracked it under the designation Norad 39765.
Some reports have speculated, based on its unusual powered manoeuvres, that it may be an experimental anti-satellite weapon, satellite maintenance vehicle, or collector of space debris.Chatham House research director and space security expert Patricia Lewis stated that "whatever it is, [Object 2014-280E] looks experimental."
A/S Kosmos was a shipping and industrial company from Sandefjord.
It was founded in 1928 by Anders Jahre, Svend Foyn Bruun, Sr. and Anton Barth von der Lippe as Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos A/S. In 1949 Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos A/S (A/S Kosmos) and its sister company Hvalfangstselskapet Kosmos II A/S (A/S Kosmos II) were fused to make the company A/S Kosmos.
In 1986, the brothers Arne and Wilhelm Blystad sought to take control of the company, without luck. Two other brothers, Morits and Brynjulf Skaugen, Jr., took control of Kosmos two years later, and split up the company. The shipping arm of the company was taken over by I. M. Skaugen and Color Line.
From 1978 to 1989, Bjørn Bettum was the administrative director of Kosmos.
Kosmos is a 1965 novel by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. The narrative revolves around two young men who seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings. The humour arises, as it often does in Gombrowicz's work, in the extremity of paranoia and confusion exhibited by the protagonist.
Themes appearing in this work that are also common in the author's oeuvre are the search for form and meaning in a chaotic existence, and the fragile nature of the human mind. The novel was awarded the 1967 International Prize for Literature.
The 1967 English translation was from the French and German translations rather than the Polish original. In 2004 Danuta Borchardt received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to enable her to prepare a revised translation directly from the Polish, a translation published by Yale University Press in 2005 and praised for its better renderings of Gombrowicz's complex language.
In 2020, two Russian satellites named Kosmos-2542 and Kosmos-2543 maneuvered close to KH-11, a US military surveillance satellite ... In January 2023, another Russian satellite, Kosmos 2499, broke up and generated a cloud of debris.
The satellite itself was Kosmos2499, a Russian craft that has no known purpose ... Expectedly, the US military kept a close eye on Kosmos 2499. ... For Kosmos 2499, any efforts will now be too late. .
Kosmos2499 launched secretly and made "suspicious" maneuvers to complete a mysterious mission ... The 18th SpaceDefense Squadron said on Twitter Monday that it had confirmed a satellite called Kosmos 2499 had broken apart into 85 pieces.
A Russian KOSMOS 2499 satellite broke up last month—for a second time—according to the Space Force's 18th SpaceDefense Squadron ... But this is actually the second breakup event of Kosmos 2499 ... Russia quietly launched KOSMOS 2499 on May 23, 2014.
In fact, this prompted erstwhile Roscosmos (Russian space agency) head Oleg Ostapenko to announce that the Kosmos2499 and a similar Kosmos 2491 satellite are not \u201ckiller satellites,\u201d according to RussianSpaceWeb.com.
We don't know much about the satellite that disintegrated dubbed Kosmos2499 — let alone why ...Alas, Kosmos 2499's days of ominously zipping through outer space are now over ... In any case, so long, Kosmos 2499.
The mysterious Russian satellite Kosmos2499 broke apart in early January, and the U.S.Space Force is already tracking 85 pieces of debris from the incident ....
On August 1, Russia launched the Kosmos-2558 satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome... The satellites Kosmos-2491, Kosmos-2499 and Kosmos-2504, launched between 2013 and 2015, conducted several tests including maneuvering close to space debris.
