Yantar-1KF
Soviet Reconnsats
Article Number: 11F630. Class: Surveillance. Type: Military. Destination: Surveillance Orbit. Nation: Russia. Manufacturer: Kozlov.

Survey reconnaissance satellite project worked on by Kozlov from 1967, succeeding Yantar-1. To be launched on Soyuz 11A511M launch vehicle. Yantar- 1KF test-construction work began in 1970, but was cancelled when the decision was taken not to proceed with the necessary launch vehicle. Never went into production. While it used systems from the Yantar-2K, it retained a re-entry vehicle of the Zenit type.

Associated Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U.

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Grahn, Sven, Sven Grahn's Space History Pages, . Sven Grahn's occasional essays on specific topics of the Russian and Chinese space programs are outstanding. Accessed at: http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/.
  • Melnik, T G, Voenno-Kosmicheskiy Siliy, Nauka, Moscow, 1997.. Two-volume official history of the (now defunct) Russin space forces.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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