[FPSPACE] Mis-identified spacecraft on Roskosmos site?

David Anderman davida at cwo.com
Wed Jun 7 13:14:29 EDT 2006


http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=1563

This page discusses the arrival of the Baumanets spacecraft at 
Baikonur on June 3, but the spacecraft pictured seems a lot bigger 
than the 92 kg microsatellite that the Bauman institute produced. I 
believe that these photos are of the Belka satellite, produced by RSC 
Energia on behalf of the Belarus space agency. Belka is based on a 
subset of the Yamal bus.

DWA



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