Kosmos 2426 (Russian: Космос 2426 meaning Cosmos 2426) is one of a set of three Russian military satellites launched in 2006 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system.
It was assigned GLONASS-M №17 number by the manufacturer[4] and 717 by the Ground Control.
A Proton-K carrier rocket with a Blok DM upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 20:18 UTC on 25 December 2006.
The launch successfully placed the satellites into Medium Earth orbit.
The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 29671.