NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cosmos 2441

Launch Time
Sat Jul 26, 2008 18:31 UTC

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b
Image Credit: Roscosmos
VKS RF
Status: Active
Price: $20.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,550 kN
Payload to LEO: 8,020 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 44.08 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.11 m
Fairing Height: 8.36 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 2441

The Persona (reportedly also named Kvarts) satellite is reportedly a new electro-optical reconnaissance satellite.

Persona features a LOMO-built optical system called 17V321 developed from the system used on the Araks-N (Arkon) satellite. The imaging payload was based on one originally designed for the Sapfir-V high orbit imaging satellite project, which featured an 1.5 m primary mirror. After Sapfir-V was cancelled, components for three payloads were transferred to Persona.

The imaging payload is mounted to a TsSKB Progress built Resurs-DK1/Yantar-derived or to a new service module. An illustration published in a Russian military document in context of the Persona satellite shows a satellite with a new service module and cruciform solar arrays, although it is not confirmed, that it in fact shows Persona.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7,000.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

Site 43/4, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

2008

37th orbital launch attempt

Soyuz 2.1b

2nd mission
1st mission of 2008
2nd successful mission