Photo: Joel Kowsky · Public domain (US government)
Mission
Government/Top Secret · SSO
Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites. The original Bars project was halted in the early 2000s. In 2007, TsSKB-Progress was contracted for Bars-M, for which reportedly…
What it put in orbit
| Object | Type | Orbit | Globe |
|---|---|---|---|
| COSMOS 2556 2022-054A | Payload | 484 × 488 km · 97.6° | Globe |
| SL-4 R/B 2022-054B | Rocket body | re-entered 2023-06-05 |
COSPAR ID 2022-054 (data from GCAT, J. McDowell, CC BY 4.0). Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).