Yantar-6K
Spacecraft · Russia
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Russian military surveillance satellite. Study 1977. Extremely high resolution version of Yantar studied in 1969. A draft project was completed in May 1977, but the decision was made to keep the basic Yantar-2K satellite bus instead.
The code name was subsequently applied to the resulting Orlets-1 reconnaissance satellite.
Related
- Country
- Russia
- Launch Vehicles
- R-7
- Agency
- Kozlov bureau
Chronology
1 event
1977 May
- Council of Chief Designers reconsiders Yantar Soviet reconnsat designs - .
Nation: Russia.
Spacecraft: Orlets-1,
Orlets-2,
Yantar-2K,
Yantar-4K1,
Yantar-4K2,
Yantar-4KS1,
Yantar-6K,
Yantar-6KS.
Flight trials of the Yantar-2K indicated the satellite was not capable of providing strategic warning of attack. The planned Yantar-6K series, in development since 1969, were overweight and behind schedule. A meeting of the Council of Chief Designers at TsSKB reviewed alternative approaches. It was decided that three variants of the Yantar-2K were to be developed, one of them the high resolution Yantar-4K.