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Cosmos-2410 completes its mission

Cosmos-2410, launched in September 2004, completed its mission and re-entered atmosphere on January 9, 2005. It was a photo-reconnaissance satellite of the Kobalt type, which usually work on orbit for about four months. Cosmos-2410 was operational for 107 days. Since it was the only Russian photo-reconnaissance satellite in operation, Russia now has no photo-reconnaissance capability.

[Space] [January 12, 2005] []

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It is probably cheaper to buy commercial imaging than launch and track your own. But in times of conflict of interest with others, will the commercial venues deliver anytime, ontime or all the time ? Nyet ! Risky business unless they are other fallback photo imaging systems ... Da ?

[Jaime Medina] [January 12, 2005] [#]

Good point. At the same time, if there are enough commerical providers, you could always find someone willing to sell you imagery. Unless, of course, you have a conflict of interests with everyone. But then you are in real trouble :)

[Pavel Podvig] [January 12, 2005] [#]

Why couldn't Russia send any space probe to other planets for 15 years like "Cassini/Huygens" on Titan??? We have been decommisioning hundreds of nuclear missiles. Why not to use them as a civil space launchers?

[Igor] [January 14, 2005] [#]

To Igor: This is, in fact, being done already. There are several programs that use decomissioned ICBMs for space launches - Dnepr (SS-18), Rockot and Strela (SS-19), Start (SS-25), Shtil (R-29R). There are some limitations there and the launch market has been slow recently, but these programs will probably expand.

[Pavel Podvig] [January 14, 2005] [#]

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