Photo: Joel Kowsky · Public domain (US government)

Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4K2M 1

Success Russian Space Forces, Soyuz-U-PVB

Mission

Government/Top Secret · LEO

Film-return reconnaisance satellite. Maneuvered on October 1 to a 213 x 330 km orbit. Believed to be an improved Yantar-4K1 with a longer lifetime - and given the code name 'Kobalt' previously applied to the defunct Yantar-4K2 system. When re-entry was commanded after only 107 days in orbit, there…

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