Russia launched a Soyuz 2.1a rocket on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 07:51 UTC from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990's to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites.
The Bars-M satellites feature an electro-optical camera system called Karat, which is developed and built by the Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association (LOMO), and a dual laser altimeter instrument to deliver topographic imagery, stereo images, altimeter data and high-resolution images with a ground resolution around 1 meter.
Roscosmos News of the Week, Crew-8, IonosferaM, Vostochny Cosmodrome.
В новом выпуске мы рассказываем о возвращении экипажа «Экипаж-8» с нашим космонавтом Александром Гребенкиным, работе по созданию российской орбитальной станции и подготовке к запускам на Восточном.
In the new issue, we talk about the return of the Crew-8 crew with our cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, the work on creating the Russian orbital station and preparations for launches at Vostochny.