[FPSPACE] Russian press on Kosmos landing in Bashkiria

[agzak at optonline.net]

Over the years, a number of images of Yantar-derived landers had been published in official brochures by its manufacturer, therefore I don't think these particular images reveal anything new or secret about this type of spacecraft.


Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Geert Sassen <geert at navtools.nl>
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 9:02 pm
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Russian press on Kosmos landing in Bashkiria
To: James Oberg <jameseoberg at comcast.net>
Cc: fpspace at friends-partners.org

> The landed object looks to me like the main recoverable module of a 
> Yantarclass spysat, they have several smaller recoverable modules 
> and then finally
> the main bus with the camera equipment returns as well. First time 
> I see
> actual images of the landing of one of those craft, don't think the 
> militarywill be happy with their publication but indeed very 
> interesting.
> Regards,
> 
> Geert.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:40 PM, James Oberg 
> <jameseoberg at comcast.net>wrote:
> >
> > This story in Russian
> >
> > http://ufa.kp.ru/daily/24251/449310/
> >
> > claims that pieces from a satellite
> >
> > landed locally in Bashkiria.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Geert Sassen
> weblog: http://geertsassen.web-log.nl
> 

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com