Launch - Kosmos 2579 (Bars-M No. 6) Soyuz 2.1a
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.
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.
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