Persona (satellite)

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Persona ( Russian Персона , GRAU index 14F137, also Kvarts ) is the name of a new generation of Russian optical-electronic reconnaissance satellites . Persona is built by ZSKB-Progress in Samara and is presumably based either on a newly designed propulsion and service module or on the construction of the Resurs-DK Earth observation satellite, which in turn is a modernized version of the Neman reconnaissance aircraft. The payload (telescope and sensors) is manufactured by Lomo and is supposed to be a modification of the Araks payload- be satellites. The launch mass is in the range of seven tons. The planned service life is given as seven years.

Start list

No. designation Date (UTC) NSSDC ID Launcher Launch site comment
1 Cosmos 2441 July 26, 2008
6:31 pm 		2008-037A Soyuz 2.1b Plesetsk 43/4 Problems in operation since February 2009 at the latest
2 Cosmos 2486 June 7, 2013
6:37 PM 		2013-028A Soyuz 2.1b Plesetsk 43/4 Could not go into operation as planned due to defective memory modules. Software installed in August 2014 avoided these problems.
3 Cosmos 2506 June 23, 2015
4:44 pm 		2015-029A Soyuz 2.1b Plesetsk 43/4

The launch of the first Persona satellite was also the first launch of a Soyuz 2.1b from Plesetsk. Since the first two satellites did not work as expected, another satellite from the Kobalt-M series was launched in May 2014 . This series has a much shorter lifespan and was actually no longer intended for operation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Clark: Soyuz 2-1b rocket launches classified military payload. Spaceflight Now, July 26, 2008, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b c Anatoli Zak, Alain Chabot: Persona (14F137) spy satellite. November 21, 2012, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Pavel Podvig: Launch of Cosmos-2486 - Persona optical reconnaissance satellite. June 7, 2013, accessed May 28, 2015 .
  4. ↑ William Graham: Soyuz 2-1B launches third Persona-1 satellite spy. nasaspaceflight.com, June 23, 2015, accessed June 24, 2015 .