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Zenit-derived satellites used for earth resources studies as part of the 'Resurs' and 'Gektor-Priroda' project. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation. Major Events: .
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable (?); also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
First flight of prototype for Resurs-O1 spacecraft. Also performed remote sensing tasks. Acquisition of information required for continued investigation of the natural resources of the earth; development of remote sensing methods for measuring the status of the earth's surface and the atmosphere beneath the satellite.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable (?); also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, medium resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, medium resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, medium resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
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3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, medium resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, medium resolution photo surveillance; film capsule. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, medium resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Follow-on to Meteor series. Second flight of prototype for Resurs-O1 spacecraft. Gathering regular information on the natural resources of the earth for use in various branches of the Soviet economy, and conducting further tests on new types of measuring apparatus and methods of remote sensing of the earth's surface and atmosphere.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable (?). Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
First flight of Resurs-O1. Acquisition of operational information on the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR; continued trials of new types of informational and measurement apparatus and methods of remote sensing o f the earth's surface and atmosphere. Operated for one year, two months.
3rd generation, high resolution photo surveillance; film capsule; maneuverable; also performed earth resource tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Pad was badly damaged and not put back into service until December 1988.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Also performed earth resources tasks. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation. Stayed in operation for six years, six months, far beyond its rated life of 3 to 5 years.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation; survey of seismically active regions of the country, including the Armenian SSR, in the interests of industrial and non -industrial construction.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the Soviet economy and international cooperation; space-based survey of the central part of Antarctica for purposes of mapping inaccessible regions of that continent.
Deployed Pion 1 & 2. Resurs-F: Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the Soviet economy and international cooperation. Satellite carries two passive separable 'Pion' probes to investigate upper atmospheric density.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Deployed Pion 3 & 4. Resurs-F: Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the Soviet economy and international cooperation. Satellite carries two passive separable 'Pion' probes to investigate upper atmospheric density.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR and international cooperation.
Carried W. German microgravity experiment. Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of the Soviet economy and international cooperation; and the conduct of biotechnological experiments under a commercial agreement with the firm Interspace (Federal Republic of Germany).
Also carried German microgravity experiment. Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation. In accordance with a commercial agreement, apparatus belo nging to the Federal Republic of Germany is also being carried for the purpose of conducting biotechnological experiments.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation.
Carried German microgravity experiment. Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation.
Also carried microgravity experiments. Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of the various branches of the national economy of the USSR, and solution of problems relating to the environment and to international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy of the USSR; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of the various branches of the national economy of the USSR, and solution of problems relating to the environment and to international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the earth in the interests of the various branches of the national economy of the USSR, and solution of problems relating to the environment and to international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth for the various branches of the national economy, the solution of environmental problems, and international cooperation.
Capsule reentered 7/9/92. Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of the various branches of the national economy.
Carried US Dept. of Defense experiment. Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of the various branches of the national economy and solution of problems relating to the environment and to international cooperation (the satellite's equipment included two Pion passive satellites for the investigation of the upper atmosphere).
Carried descent module with greetings to American people. Delivery of a humanitarian cargo (messages to the American people, promotional materials of Russian and foreign firms, etc.) to the United States of America in connection with the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth for the various branches of the national economy, the solution of environmental problems, and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation.
Investigation of the natural resources of the Earth in the interests of various branches of the national economy; solution of problems relating to ecology and international cooperation.
Studied natural resources. It carried the German Safir-R1 communications experiment as a secondary attached payload. Expected life 3 to 5 years.
Natural resources; photo capsule recovered in Russia on 10/26/95.
Landed in Kazakstan Dec 13.
In addition to its remote sensing equipment, the satellite carried the Belgian LLMS (Little LEO Messaging System) communications payload for the IRIS system. The launch was critical in restoring confidence in the Zenit vehicle prior to planned commercial launches of Globalstar satellites from Baikonur and the first Sea Launch flights using a three-stage Zenit from a California-based floating launch platform. Expected life 3 to 5 years.