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Article Number: 11F622. Class: Surveillance. Type: Military. Destination: Surveillance Orbit. Nation: Russia. Manufacturer: Kozlov.

Survey reconnaissance satellite project of KB Yuzhnoye worked on 1964-1967. 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 Yantar-1KF. Was to have been derived from Soyuz-R manned spacecraft.

Associated Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U.

Bibliography:

Voevodin, Sergey A, VSA072 - Space Apparatus, "Sergey A. Voevodin's Reports", Web Address when accessed: http://home.attbi.com/~rusaerog/spacecraft.html.
Grahn, Sven, Sven Grahn's Space History Pages, Web Address when accessed: http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/.
Melnik, T G, Voenno-Kosmicheskiy Siliy, Nauka, Moscow, 1997..

Yantar-Yu
Early Yantar design by KB Yuzhnoye....
Credit- KB Yuzhnoye

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