[FPSPACE] Next Zenit To Carry Yenisey Spysat

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:

>    SOURCES WITHIN THE INDUSTRY SAID THAT THE SPACECRAFT, CODE-NAMED YENISEY, 
> WAS THE ZENIT'S PRIMARY PAYLOAD. THE YENISEY SPACECRAFT, NAMED AFTER A 
> SIBERIAN RIVER, IS NOT PART OF ANY KNOWN RUSSIAN  PROJECT.

Interesting.  Enisey was also the name of the Topaz-2 reactor which we all
called "Topaz-2" but actually never carried that designation.  There is no
law against re-using the name and I believe that Peter Gorin, in an
article on Russian spysats, pointed out that most of them are named after
rivers (like Neman).



DDAY