Yantar-2
Spacecraft · Russia
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Russian military surveillance satellite. Study 1968. High resolution reconnaissance satellite project worked on by KB Yuzhnoye 1964-1967. Was to have been derived from Soyuz-R manned spacecraft.
The DS satellites of KB Yuzhnoye (Chief Constructor V M Kovtunenko) were used to solve problems related to the planned Yantar series. But Yuzhnoye was too busy building ICBM's for the RSVN (Soviet Rocket Forces). So Kozlov's Filial 1 of OKB-1 took up the project after a delay in 1967 to 1969. Succeeded by Kozlov's very different Yantar-2K.
Related
- Country
- Russia
- Launch Vehicles
- R-7
- Agency
- Kozlov bureau
Photo Gallery
Yantar-Yu
Early Yantar design by KB Yuzhnoye.
Credit: KB Yuzhnoye
