Yantar-6KS
Spacecraft · Russia
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Russian military surveillance satellite. Study 1977. Electro-optical imaging operational 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, resulting in the Yantar-4KS1 reconnaissance satellite.
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- Country
- Russia
- Launch Vehicles
- R-7
- Agency
- Kozlov bureau
- Bibliography
- 110,
445,
451,
69.
- 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