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Persona satellite failure

The new optical reconnaissance satellite Persona, designated Cosmos-2441 at its launch on July 6, 2008, failed shortly after beginning its operations. According to a report in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, at the recent session of Roskosmos the deputy prime minister, Sergey Ivanov, criticized the industry for a string of satellite failures - Monitor, KazSat, and Persona. The reports said that in the Persona case, it was the electronics of the satellite that failed.

It is hard to say exactly when the satellite failure occurred. However, Cosmos-2441 has not been performing any orbit-correction maneuvers since mid-September 2008.

[Space] [February 13, 2009] []

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"...Sergey Ivanov, criticized the industry for a string of satellite failures - Monitor, KazSat, and Persona."

In any case, the Monitor and KazSat now working.

http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=133
http://www.lyngsat.com/kaz1.html

[Gradient] [February 13, 2009] [#]

I guess nobody told that to Mr. Ivanov (or RG misreported what he said)

[Pavel Podvig ] [February 13, 2009] [#]

Thank You Gradient on information about Monitor satellite.
I am very glad about it, because these mean that russia posses at least two optical reconnaissance satellites in orbit, Monitor and Resurs-DK.
But Is there any hope about Persona satellite to became operational again in future like Monitor satellite.
Also are You sure about KazSat satellite, because I read that communication with satellite is lost forever.

[nedim] [February 13, 2009] [#]

These failures are suspicious.

The question that should be asked is - where the electronic components were made? In recent years foreign(Western and Asian) components have been appearing in such equipment because Russian domestic Industry has been unable to provide components.

If the satellites failed because of sabotaged Western components then there is a major security hole in Russia's Early Warning System, and right now is a good time to produce some new "nano-technologies" that have been receiving much PR.

These satellite failures appear to have occurred around the time of the August Georgia Conflict. This adds to the suspicion that somebody believed that Georgia's Offensives against South Ossetia and Abkhazia would be more effective if Russia's Military was blind.

[Nikolai K.] [March 3, 2009] [#]

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