Russian Military Satellites: Development and Launches

Bros... their aerospace budget is much smaller than the total EUs space budget and about on par with India's space budget.

It is getting a little goofy witnessing fellow westerners and doomers wildly fluctuate between ruskies being a massive behemoth power on one end and a total paper tiger on stilts on another.

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2 Persona Satellites
3 BARS satellites
2 resurs satellites
7 Lotos sats (although 1 and the 2nd might have also failed to stay in orbit failed, so 5 or 6)
1 Pion NKS satellite

All those sats are capable of optical observation

The Garpun constellation gathers info and downlinks to the ground stations

Do these sattelites allow the russian military to observe any point in the ukraine in maxar like quality , assuming theres no clouds? Is the chinese optical recon satellite network far larger than the russian one?

Bros... their aerospace budget is much smaller than the total EUs space budget and about on par with India's space budget.

It is getting a little goofy witnessing fellow westerners and doomers wildly fluctuate between ruskies being a massive behemoth power on one end and a total paper tiger on stilts on another.

Russian rockets are domesticallly and serially built, and can be launched in large quantities. The VKS has no budgetary or technological excuse not to launch at least 20 optical recon satellites per year, other than need, but there is need.

The original post suggested money was wasted trolling Musk... I didn't realise the Russian space budget was used to pay for access to social media...

What a crock of shit.

Equally military satellites don't come from the civilian space budget and are normally rated secret.

Who knows what the situation is, but some will not let that stop them from having a moan.

There are well over 60 Kosmos series sats alone which include Glonass, Kanopus, Persona, Resurs, bars, strela, EKS, blagovest, kobalt, essentially a variety of reconnaissance both optical and infrared, early warning, ELINT, SIGINT, Communications, and all kinds of secretive ones like Kosmos 2499, a tracking sat and so on

Maxar sats are militarily useless , the US military can see Russian army movements through their own military spec observation satellites with much better imaging capabilities as well as endurance

The Maxar pictures are for the average western consumer to see some low grade resolution pictures on CNN

Everything Maxar shows, the US spy satellites such as NROL-44 sees much better

Maxar and Planet labs is civilian grade and the images they reveal have been seen since before SMO

The US operates civilian sats with imaging capabilities for 2 reasons - to deny that their military is providing intelligence on Russian army movements, and to make money off consumption of low grade pseudo military news reporting - otherwise known as BROsint activities

There is a Russian satellite which is private, called aurora tablet satellite

But the Russian military has much better access to imaging and intelligence

Soyuz-2.1a rocket launched a military satellite into orbit

MOSCOW, March 23. /TASS/. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket, launched on Thursday morning from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, launched a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry, called Kosmos-2567, into orbit. This was reported on Thursday in the Russian military department.

"At the estimated time, the spacecraft was launched into the target orbit and accepted for control of the ground facilities of the Space Forces," the message says.

Telemetric communication has been established and maintained with the satellite, its on-board systems are functioning normally, and the device itself has been given the name Kosmos-2567. Information about the satellite is included in the catalog of objects of the space control system.

The rocket was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at 09:40 Moscow time on March 23. The launch and launch of the satellite into the calculated orbit took place in the normal mode.

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The spacecraft is believed to be the Bars-M catography bird.