Soyuz 2.1a | Kosmos 2556 (Bars-M No. 3)
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
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Russian Space Forces
The Russian Space Forces are a branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces, that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Russia. Having been reestablished following August 1, 2015 merger between the Russian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces after a 2011 dissolving of the branch. The Russian Space Forces were originally formed on August 10, 1992 and the creation of the Russian Armed Forces.
Kosmos 2556 (Bars-M No. 3)
Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites. The original Bars project was halted in the early 2000s. In 2007, TsSKB-Progress was contracted for Bars-M, for which reportedly the Yantar-based service module was replaced by a new developed advanced service module. 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.
Soyuz 2.1a
Height 46.30 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 2810 kg
Liftoff Thrust 4149 kN
Diameter 2.95 Meters
Mass To LEO 7020 kg
Liftoff Mass 312 Tonnes
Launch Success 48
Consecutive Success 42
Maiden Flight 2004-11-04
Launch Failures 1
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