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Reshetnev Satellites
« on: 07/21/2013 03:16 pm »
Express-1000 satellites

Bus / PlatformName Mass
    
Express-1000АЛуч-5АLuch-5A1,140
Express-1000АЛуч-5ВLuch-5V 
    
Express-1000АМЛуч-5БLuch-5B1,350
    
Express-1000KЭкспресс-АТ2Ekspress-AT21,326
    
Express-1000H Amos-51,972
Express-1000H Telkom-31,903
    
Express-1000НТЛибідьLybid1,845
    
Express-1000HTAЯмал-300КYamal-300K1,870
Express-1000HTAҚазсат-3Kazsat-3 
    
Express-1000HTBЭкспресс-АТ1Ekspress-AT11,672
Express-1000HTBЭкспресс-АМ8Ekspress-AM82,100
    

http://www.iss-reshetnev.com/
http://assi.or.id/download/APSAT2013/PresentationFile/Dmitry%20Latyshev_ISS%20Reshetnev.pdf
http://www.enri.go.jp/eiwac/2010/pdf/prete/EN2010-015.pdf
http://www.ciemat.es/sweb/Spain-ISTC-STCU/22abril/ISS.pdf
http://www.iss-reshetnev.ru/media/newspaper/newspaper-2014/newspaper-356.pdf
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #1 on: 08/30/2013 02:56 pm »
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The AOneSat-1 telecommunications spacecraft will be built by ISS-Reshetnev around its middle-class Express-1000H satellite platform. The communications and TV broadcasting spacecraft to cover the territory of Latin America is expected to be launched in 2016 and carry out its mission in orbit for 15 years.
http://www.iss-reshetnev.com/?cid=news&nid=299

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #2 on: 01/08/2014 08:46 pm »
Some vague information about future satellites.



Лабиринт
Product: 14Ф141 № 11

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Product: 14Ф144

Олимп-К
Components: ПОЗ 344К, ПОС 347К, ПЗВ 348К
[source]
Разработка, изготовление, поставка и сдача в эксплуатацию 2-× антенных систем для двух командно-измерительных систем С-диапазона.
[source]

Благовест (?)
Components: ПОЗ 344К, ПОС 347К, ПЗВ 348К
[source]


Components

ПОЗ 344К
прибора ориентации по Земле
Earth horizon sensor
Manufacturer: Sodern
Model: STD15

ПОС 347К
прибор ориентации по Солнцу
Sun acquisition sensor
Manufacturer: TNO Science and Industry

ПЗВ 348К
прибор звездный визирующий
Star tracker
Manufacturer: Sodern
Model: SED26 / Hydra



http://www.e-disclosure.ru
http://www.tp.iss-reshetnev.ru
http://geofizika-cosmos.ru

 
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #3 on: 03/02/2014 07:15 am »
Types of solar panels and satellite platforms

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ОАО «ИСС им. академика М.Ф. Pешетнева»:
- на основе кремния: КА 17Ф15М - БС 14М056; КА 14Ф136 - БС 14М056-01;
- на основе арсенида галлия: КА 14Ф141 - БС 14М062; КА 14Ф143 - БС 14М067; БС КА «Олимп-К»; БС КА на базе платформы «Экспресс-1000» - «Амос-5»; «Телком-3»; «Ямал-300»; “Lybid”; «АТ1»; БС КА на базе платформы «Экспресс-2000» - «Экспрrсс-АМ5»; «Экспресс-АМ6»; БС КА на базе платформы «Экспресс-2000А» - «Ямал-401»
http://www.npp-kvant.ru/pdf-files/oao/otchet2010.pdf

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #4 on: 03/14/2014 03:34 pm »
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #5 on: 03/19/2014 09:46 am »
So are all the 1000H types electrical satellites and the others not? What will the 4000 be? chemical or electric?

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #6 on: 05/08/2014 10:12 am »
I publish an exclusive picture of a Meridian satellite here :

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/satellites/meridian/meridian.html
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #7 on: 05/09/2014 05:17 pm »
My pictures the Luch satellite in Saint-Petersburg are here :

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/satellites/loutch/visite/popov/popov.html
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #8 on: 09/01/2014 06:35 pm »
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Yamal-401 satellite completed
Yamal-401 is the third satellite developed and manufactured by the Reshetnev Company on the base of its heavy-class Express-2000 platform. The satellite weighs 2976 kilograms and is capable of providing 11 kW of power to the payload. Its mission in the geostationary orbit is expected to last at least 15 years.
http://www.iss-reshetnev.com/?cid=news&nid=331

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #9 on: 11/07/2014 05:57 pm »
Is there any info on the Uragan(-M/-K1/-K2/-KM) series?

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #10 on: 11/28/2014 07:39 pm »
Молния-1

  1  11Ф67                       1  8К78                           22.08.1964 - Космос-41    
  2  11Ф67                       2  8К78                           04.06.1964  
  3  11Ф67                       3  8К78                           23.04.1965  
  4  11Ф67                       4  8К78                           14.10.1965  
  5  11Ф67                       5  8К78М                          27.03.1966  
  6  11Ф67                       6  8К78                           25.04.1966  
  7  11Ф67                       7  8К78                           20.10.1966  
  8  11Ф67                       8  8К78                           24.05.1967  
  9  11Ф67                       9  8К78М                          03.10.1967  
 10  11Ф67                      10  8К78М                          21.04.1968  
 11  11Ф67                      11  8К78М                          31.08.1967 - Космос-174    
 12  11Ф67                      12  8К78М                          22.10.1967  
 13  11Ф67                      13  8К78М                          05.07.1968  
 14  11Ф67                      14  8К78М                          05.10.1968  
 15  11Ф67                      15  8К78М                          16.12.1968 - Космос-260    
 16  11Ф67                      16  8К78М                          11.04.1969  
 17  11Ф67                      17  8К78М                          19.02.1970  
 18  11Ф67                      18  8К78М                          22.07.1969  
 19  11Ф67                      19  8К78М                          29.09.1970  
 20  11Ф67                      20  8К78М                          28.07.1971  
 21  11Ф67                      21  8К78М                          26.06.1970  
 22  11Ф67                      22  8К78М                          25.12.1970  
 23  11Ф67                      23  8К78М                          27.11.1970  
 24  11Ф67        1970/2  80057424  8К78М      1972      78033528  24.10.1974  
 25  11Ф67        1970/2  79457425  8К78М      1970/2  7705711497  19.12.1971  
 26  11Ф67        1970/2  80057426  8К78М      1970/2  7705711498  14.10.1972  
 27  11Ф67        1970/2  79457427  8К78М      1969     Ю15000-93  04.04.1972  
 28  11Ф67                          8К78М      1971    7801421512  02.12.1972  
 29  11Ф67        1971/2       369  8К78М      1970/2  7705711499  30.08.1973 - 80034369?    
 30  11Ф67                        
 31  11Ф67                          8К78М      1971    7801421514  03.02.1973  
 32  11Ф67                          8К78М      1971    7801421515  14.11.1973  
 33  11Ф67        1972         143  8К78М      1971/2  7702421516  20.04.1974 - 80013143?    
 34  11Ф67        1972    80013144  8К78М      1974      78031571  02.09.1975  
 35  11Ф67        1972    79413145  8К78М      1971     С15000-64  29.04.1975 - Венера РН    
 36  11Ф658       1972/2  80093146  8К78М      1973      77019550  30.11.1973  
 37  11Ф658       1972/2  79493147  8К78М      1974/2    76041579  05.06.1975  
 38  11Ф658               800    8  Протон-К                       29.07.1974 - Молния-1С    
 39  11Ф658       1973/2  79439239  8К78М      1974/2    76041575  11.03.1976  
 40  11Ф658       1973/2  80039240  8К78М      1973/2    76029559  22.01.1976  
 41  11Ф658       1973/2  79439241  8К78М      1975/2    78026599  24.03.1977  

 42  11Ф658                         8К78М      1973/2    76029558  19.03.1976  
 43  11Ф658                         8К78М      1973/2    76029556  23.07.1976  

 44  11Ф658       1974    79491231  8К78М      1974/2    76041581  02.03.1978  
 45  11Ф658               800 1232  8К78М      1974/2    76041580  24.06.1977  
 46  11Ф658       1974/2  79441233  8К78М      1975      77016593  30.08.1977  

 47  11Ф658       1975    79416547  8К78М      1978/2    78055534  31.07.1979  

 48  11Ф658       1976    80012648  8К78М      1977      78018505  11.01.1980  
 49  11Ф658       1976    79412649  8К78М      1978/2    78055528  20.10.1979  
 50  11Ф658       1976/2  80062650  8К78М      1977      78018501  22.08.1978  
 51  11Ф658       1976/2  79462651  8К78М      1977/2    76038508  14.07.1978  

 52  11Ф658       1977    80028752  8К78М      1976      76042605  12.04.1979  
 53  11Ф658       1977/2  79488753  8К78М      1975/2    78026595  02.06.1978  
 54  11Ф658       1977/2  80088754  8К78М      1978      77025524  16.11.1980  

 55  11Ф658               794   55  8К78М      1981      78039640  23.12.1981  

 56  11Ф658       1978/2  80095856  8К78М      1979      76047550  21.06.1980  
 57  11Ф658       1978/2  79495857  8К78М      1975/2    78026601  17.11.1981  

 58  11Ф658       1979/2  80087830  8К78М      1980      77023620  26.02.1982  
 59  11Ф658       1979/2  79487831  8К78М      1977/2    76038510  30.01.1981  

 60  11Ф658                         8К78М      1982/2    77024656  08.12.1982 - Космос-1423    

 61  11Ф658               79438861  8К78М      1977/2    76038607  24.06.1981  

 62  11Ф658               800   62  8К78М      1982      76054652  21.07.1982  

 63  11Ф658       1981/2  79469163  8К78М      1979/2    78017556  28.05.1982  
 64  11Ф658       1981    80059164  8К78М      1980      77023619  23.11.1983  
 65  11Ф658       1981/2  79469165  8К78М      1980/2    76053625  16.03.1983  

 66  11Ф658               800   66  8К78М      1983      78012660  19.07.1983  

 67  11Ф658       1982/2  79454267  8К78М      1983      78012661  24.08.1984  

 68  11Ф658Т              800   68  8К78М      1982/2    77024654  02.04.1983  

 69  11Ф658Т      1983    79492369  8К78М      1983/2    76032666  10.08.1984  
 70  11Ф658Т      1983    80092370  8К78М      1981      78039637  16.03.1984  
 71  11Ф658Т      1983/2  79422371  8К78М      1983/2    76032672  14.12.1984  

 72  11Ф658Т      1984    80056472  8К78М      1985      76021688  30.07.1986  
 73  11Ф658Т              794 6473  8К78М      1983      78012663  23.10.1985  
 74  11Ф658Т      1984/2  80076474  8К78М      1984/2    78056679  22.08.1985  

 75  11Ф658Т      1985    79471575  8К78М      1986      76048505  05.09.1986  
 76  11Ф658Т      1985    80071576  8К78М      1985      76021686  28.10.1985  
 77  11Ф658Т      1985/2  79491577  8К78М      1986      76048508  15.11.1986  
 78  11Ф658Т      1985/2  80091578  8К78М      1986/2    78028512  26.12.1986  

 79  11Ф658Т      1986    79448179  8К78М      1986/2    78028513  17.03.1988  
 80  11Ф658Т              800 8180  8К78М      1984/2    78056678  11.03.1988  
 81  11Ф658Т      1986/2  79458181  8К78М      1987/2    76035532  12.08.1988  
 82  11Ф658Т      1986/2  80058182  8К78М      1988      78039559  28.12.1988  

 83  11Ф658Т      1987    79425283  8К78М      1988      78039556  27.09.1989  
 84  11Ф658Т              800 5284  8К78М      1985/2    77011691  15.02.1989  
 85  11Ф658Т      1987/2  79435285  8К78М      1985/2    77011693  10.08.1990  
 86  11Ф658Т      1987/2  80035286  8К78М      1987      77015525  26.04.1990  

 87  11Ф658Т      1988    79469387  8К78М-ПВБ  1990      77053606  18.06.1991  
 88  11Ф658Т      1988    80069388  8К78М      1987      77015529  23.11.1990  
 89  11Ф658Т      1988/2  79489389  8К78М      1989/2    77017571  15.02.1991  
 90  11Ф658Т      1988/2  80089390  8К78М      1987/2    76035533  01.08.1991  

 91  11Ф658Т      1989    79417491  8К78М      1989      76047567  04.03.1992  
 92  11Ф658Т                   592  8К78М-ПВБ  1991      78012643  13.01.1993  
 93  11Ф658Т                   493  8К78М      1988      78039558  06.08.1992  
 94  11Ф658Т                    94  8К78М-ПВБ  1992/2    77044660  26.05.1993  
 95  11Ф658Т                   295  8К78М-ПВБ  1992      76024658  22.12.1993  

 96  11Ф658Т                   696  8К78М-ПВБ  1993      77031675  14.08.1996  
 97  11Ф658Т                   697  8К78М-ПВБ  1993      77031672  14.12.1994  

 98  11Ф658Т                   398  8К78М-ПВБ  1993/2    78051678  24.09.1997  
 99  11Ф658Т                   399  8К78М-ПВБ  1996    Х15000-030  28.09.1998 - СО-М2 РН

100  11Ф658Т      1995    80087500  8К78М-ПВБ  2001/2    76092690  18.02.2004  

101  11Ф658Т      1998    79435801  8К78М-ПВБ  1997      78029684  02.04.2003  

Молния-3

  1  11Ф637 №11Л  1974    80091198  8К78М      1974      78031572  21.11.1974  
  2  11Ф637 №12Л  1974    79491199  8К78М      1972/2    76043531  14.04.1975  
  3  11Ф637 №13Л  1974/2  80041200  8К78М      1975      77016588  14.11.1975  

  4  11Ф637 №14Л

  5  11Ф637 №15Л  1975/2  79456515  8К78М      1975    Ф15000-142  27.12.1975 - СО-М РН
  6  11Ф637 №16Л  1975/2  80056516  8К78М      1975      77016598  12.05.1976  

  7  11Ф637 №17Л  1976    79412617  8К78М      1976      76042602  28.12.1976  
  8  11Ф637 №18Л  1976/2  80062618  8К78М      1976/2    77052606  28.10.1977  
  9  11Ф637 №19Л  1976/2  79462619  8К78М      1975/2    78026604  28.04.1977  
 10  11Ф637 №20Л  1976/2  80062620  8К78М      1975/2    78026596  24.01.1978  

 11  11Ф637 №21Л  1977    79428721  8К78М      1977/2    76038509  05.06.1979  
 12  11Ф637 №22Л  1977/2  80088722  8К78М      1977/2    76038511  13.10.1978  
 13  11Ф637 №23Л  1977/2  79488723  8К78М      1977      78018504  18.01.1979  
 14  11Ф637 №24Л  1977/2  80088724  8К78М      1978      77025525  24.03.1981  

 15  11Ф637 №25Л  1978    79425825  8К78М      1980      77023617  09.01.1981  
 16  11Ф637 №26Л  1978/2  80095826  8К78М      1978/2    78055506  18.04.1980 - Космос-1175    
 17  11Ф637 №27Л  1978/2  79495827  8К78М      1979      76047551  18.07.1980  

 18  11Ф637 №28Л  1979    80027800  8К78М      1978/2    78055535  11.09.1981 - Космос-1305    
 19  11Ф637 №29Л  1979    79427801  8К78М      1981      78039638  24.03.1982  

 20  11Ф637 №30Л  1980    80043830  8К78М      1980/2    76053622  09.06.1981  
 21  11Ф637 №31Л  1980/2  79473831  8К78М      1978/2    78055530  17.10.1981  

 22  11Ф637 №32Л  1981    80059132  8К78М      1982      76054650  30.08.1983  
 23  11Ф637 №33Л  1981    79459133  8К78М      1979      76047547  27.08.1982  

 24  11Ф637 №34Л  1982    80014234  8К78М      1981      78039641  11.03.1983  
 25  11Ф637 №35Л  1982    79414235  8К78М      1982      76054648  21.12.1983  
 26  11Ф637 №36Л  1982/2  80054236  8К78М      1983/2    76032665  16.01.1985  
 27  11Ф637 №37Л  1982/2  79454237  8К78М      1982/2    77024658  17.07.1985  

 28  11Ф637 №38Л  1983    80092338  8К78М      1985      76021685  03.10.1985  
 29  11Ф637 №39Л  1983/2  79422339  8К78М      1984/2    78056676  29.05.1985  

 30  11Ф637 №40Л  1984    80056440  8К78М      1984/2    78056680  24.12.1985  
 31  11Ф637 №41Л  1984    79456441  8К78М      1981/2    77049645  20.10.1986  
 32  11Ф637 №42Л  1984/2  80076442  8К78М      1984      77046671  22.01.1987  
 33  11Ф637 №43Л  1984/2  79476443  8К78М      1984      77046673  18.04.1986  

 34  11Ф637 №44Л  1985    80071544  8К78М      1982      76054653  19.06.1986  
 35  11Ф637 №45Л  1985    79471545  8К78М      1986      76048506  08.06.1989  
 36  11Ф637 №46Л  1985/2  80091546  8К78М      1988      78039555  28.11.1989  

 37  11Ф637 №47Л  1986    79448147  8К78М      1987      77015530  13.06.1990  
 38  11Ф637 №48Л  1986    80048148  8К78М      1989      76047569  17.09.1991  

 39  11Ф637 №49Л  1987    79425249  8К78М      1985/2    77011692  26.05.1988  
 40  11Ф637 №50Л          800 5250  8К78М-ПВБ  1991      78012641  14.10.1992  

 41  11Ф637 №51Л  1988    79469351  8К78М      1986      76048510  29.09.1988  
 42  11Ф637 №52Л  1988/2  80089352  8К78М      1985/2    77011690  22.12.1988  
 43  11Ф637 №53Л  1988/2  79489353  8К78М      1987      77015527  23.01.1990  

 44  11Ф637 №54Л  1989    80017454  8К78М      1988/2    77059562  20.09.1990  

 45  11Ф637 №55Л  1990    79453355  8К78М      1989/2    77017574  22.03.1991  

 46  11Ф637 №56Л                56  8К78М-ПВБ  1990/2    78023607  02.12.1992  
 47  11Ф637 №57Л                57  8К78М-ПВБ  1991/2    76032646  21.04.1993  

 48  11Ф637 №58Л               258  8К78М-ПВБ  1992      76024659  04.08.1993  
 49  11Ф637 №59Л               259  8К78М-ПВБ  1993      77031674  09.08.1995  

 50  11Ф637 №60Л               660  8К78М-ПВБ  1992/2    77044661  23.08.1994  
 51  11Ф637 №61Л               661  8К78М-ПВБ  1995/2    77017682  01.07.1998  

 52  11Ф637 №62Л               362  8К78М-ПВБ  1991      78012645  24.10.1996  
 53  11Ф637 №63Л               363  8К78М-ПВБ  1993/2    78051677  08.07.1999  

 54  11Ф637 №64Л  1998    80035764  8К78М-ПВБ  1999      77013687  25.10.2001  

 55  11Ф637 №65Л  2000    79474365  8К78М-ПВБ  2001      77082689  19.06.2003  

Молния-3К

  1  14Ф33  №11Л  1997    79469511  8К78М-ПВБ  1998      77045686  20.07.2001  
  2  14Ф33  №12Л  2000    80074312  8К78М-ПВБ  2002/2    77046694  21.06.2005  

Молния-2

  1  11Ф628 №11Л  1971    80024351  8К78М      1969     Ю15000-92  24.11.1971  
  2  11Ф628 №12Л  1971    79424352  8К78М      1969     Ю15000-91  19.05.1972  
  3  11Ф628 №13Л  1971/2  80034353  8К78М      1971    С15000-106  30.09.1972  

  4  11Ф628 №14Л  1972    80013124  8К78М      1972/2    76043537  12.12.1972  
  5  11Ф628 №15Л  1972/2  79493125  8К78М      1972    М15000-115  05.04.1973  
  6  11Ф628 №16Л  1972/2  80093126  8К78М      1972/2    76043533  11.07.1973  

  7  11Ф628 №17Л  1973    79429217  8К78М      1973      77019549  19.10.1973  
  8  11Ф628 №18Л  1973/2  80039218  8К78М      1973/2    76029555  25.12.1973  
  9  11Ф628 №19Л  1973/2  79439219  8К78М      1973/2    76029554  26.04.1974  
 10  11Ф628 №20Л  1973/2  80039220  8К78М      1972      78033530  21.12.1974  

 11  11Ф628 №21Л  1974    80091208  8К78М      1972      78033529  23.07.1974  
 12  11Ф628 №22Л  1974    79491209  8К78М      1972/2    76043532  06.02.1975  
 13  11Ф628 №23Л  1974    80091210  8К78М      1973/2    77019552  08.07.1975  
 14  11Ф628 №24Л  1974/2  79441211  8К78М      1973/2    76029560  09.09.1975  
 15  11Ф628 №25Л  1974/2  80041212  8К78М      1974      78031567  17.12.1975  

 16  11Ф628 №26Л  1975    80016526  8К78М      1974/2    76041576  01.09.1976 - Космос-853    
 17  11Ф628 №27Л  1975    79416527  8К78М      1975      77016594  01.07.1976 - Космос-837    
 18  11Ф628 №28Л  1975/2  80056528  8К78М      1974/2    76041577  11.02.1977  
 19  11Ф628 №29Л  1975/2  79456529  8К78М      1975/2    78026597  02.12.1976  

Меридиан

  1  14Ф112 №11Л  2005    79443411  14А14-1А   2005      76033135  24.12.2006  
  2  14Ф112 №12Л  2006    80087112  14А14-1А   2006/2    77067162  21.05.2009  
  3  14Ф112 №13Л          794   13  14А14-1А   2009      76012167  02.11.2010  
  4  14Ф112 №14Л          80013414  14А14-1А   2009      76012230  04.05.2011  
  5  14Ф112 №15Л          79413415  14А14-1Б   2007      78075164  23.12.2011  
  6  14Ф112 №16Л  2008    80029116  14А14-1А   2012      77046267  14.11.2012  
  7  14Ф112 №17Л                    14А14-1А                  174   

     14Ф113 №742          80013442  14А14-1Б   2010      77024209  02.10.2011 - Космос-2474
     14Ф113 №743          794    3  Протон-М                       04.11.2011 - Космос-2475
     14Ф113 №744          800    4  Протон-М                       04.11.2011 - Космос-2476 
     14Ф113 №745          794    5  Протон-М                       04.11.2011 - Космос-2477
     14Ф113 №746  2008    80029146  14А14-1Б   2011      78031219  28.11.2011 - Космос-2478 

     14Ф143 №701          79413411  14А14-1Б   2010      77024208  26.02.2011 - Космос-2471 

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #11 on: 12/04/2014 08:49 pm »
There is a download here, with details of upcoming satellites:-
http://www.satcomrus.net/2014/eng/ppp_satcomrus2014.zip

Thanks to:-
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic4557/message1297519/#message1297519

Turns out there are to be four ‘Blagovest’ satellites?
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #12 on: 01/18/2015 09:18 pm »
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #13 on: 06/07/2015 08:11 am »
Something referred to as article 14Ф149:-

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Площадка 61/2Б. Размещение стенда главного конструктора для проведения летних испытаний БРТК Q/Ка-диапазона КА 14Ф149 на территории «Антенное поле» до корпуса № 11.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?noticeId=2367653

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БРТК - бортовой радиотехнический комплекс

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«Проведение испытаний на дозовые эффекты ЭРИ ИП, из со-става БА 14М923.2106-0»
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?noticeId=1692484

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БА - бортовая аппаратура
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #14 on: 06/08/2015 05:26 pm »
I don't understand the picture on the cover of this journal. It seems there are ten Strela satellites. But the maximum was EIGHT Strela-1M on Cosmos-3M...
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #15 on: 06/08/2015 05:32 pm »
I don't understand the picture on the cover of this journal. It seems there are ten Strela satellites. But the maximum was EIGHT Strela-1M on Cosmos-3M...
To me, it appears to be 8 satellites.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #16 on: 06/08/2015 07:11 pm »
I don't understand the picture on the cover of this journal. It seems there are ten Strela satellites. But the maximum was EIGHT Strela-1M on Cosmos-3M...
To me, it appears to be 8 satellites.

45° between upper and lower tiers?

Also noticed the lower tier are pointing opposite to the top?

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #17 on: 06/08/2015 07:34 pm »
I don't understand the picture on the cover of this journal. It seems there are ten Strela satellites. But the maximum was EIGHT Strela-1M on Cosmos-3M...
To me, it appears to be 8 satellites.

45° between upper and lower tiers?

Also noticed the lower tier are pointing opposite to the top?

Yes, 45° between upper and lower tiers.

I have also noticed, that the lower tier satellites are upside down. All satellites appear to be mounted on some kind of radial rails.  Perhaps, for deployment the stage was spun up and the satellites slipped outwards radially by centrifugal force.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #18 on: 06/12/2015 12:27 am »
One of the "Molniya" satellites is set in one of the Siberian Federal University buildings.

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« Reply #19 on: 06/15/2015 07:29 pm »
Something referred to as article 14Ф149:-

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Площадка 61/2Б. Размещение стенда главного конструктора для проведения летних испытаний БРТК Q/Ка-диапазона КА 14Ф149 на территории «Антенное поле» до корпуса № 11.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?noticeId=2367653

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БРТК - бортовой радиотехнический комплекс

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«Проведение испытаний на дозовые эффекты ЭРИ ИП, из со-става БА 14М923.2106-0»
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БА - бортовая аппаратура

To be launched by Proton-M rocket with Briz-M upper stage.
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Комплекс подготовительных наземных работ (услуг), технологически обусловленный и неразрывно связанный с выполнением работ (оказанием услуг) непосредственно в космическом пространстве по разработке программы работы средств НИК РКН «Протон-М»/РБ «Бриз-М» при запуске КА 14Ф149 с космодрома «Байконур»
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #20 on: 07/11/2015 03:57 pm »
Any ideas what satellite 762V is? I think it is another reference to Olimp-K Luch. MSS-767 is the platform for the Ekspress-AM satellites.

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КА «Глонасс-К», КА 14Ф31, КА «Луч-5», КА «Ямал-300К», КА 14Ф141, КА «Экспресс-АМ5, 6, 8, АТ1, АТ2», КА Lybid, КА «Амос-5», КА «Телком-3», КА 762В, КА KazSat-3
http://www.tsenki.com/production_technologies/hiroscopic/control_systems/compact_unit_angular_rate/kind34-040-040a/

Could be Garpun, but this makes references to both КА 14Ф136 №12Л and КА 762В.

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Корректировка КД и ЭД на дооборудование СК 8П882К (ПУ-24) для запуска КА 762В
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/download/download.html?id=1126316
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/plan/info/documents.html?planInfoId=397077&d-6842228-p=1&planId=34085&versioned=&activeTab=1

Or is the V connected to Sfera-V?
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32423.msg1318304#msg1318304
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #21 on: 11/16/2015 06:08 pm »
There is a download here, with details of upcoming satellites:-
http://www.satcomrus.net/2014/eng/ppp_satcomrus2014.zip

Thanks to:-
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic4557/message1297519/#message1297519

Turns out there are to be four ‘Blagovest’ satellites?

Blagovest are for the Russian military prepared under contract №Н/2/2-05-11-ДОГОЗ dated 14th April 2011.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?noticeId=2584863

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Вопрос: Запланированная дата запуска КА?.
Ответ: Планируемая дата запуска КА – 4 кв. 2016 года.
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #22 on: 11/16/2015 07:07 pm »
Blagovest are for the Russian military prepared under contract №Н/2/2-05-11-ДОГОЗ dated 14th April 2011.

Insurance for Blagovest :
http://www.asn-news.ru/news/53301

There is a picture of Blagovest here (page 8/13) :
http://www.ard-satcom.ru/files/dubna%202015/%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%202%20%D0%B8%D1%8E%D0%BB%D1%8F%20%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%202015_2%20%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2.pdf
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #24 on: 02/22/2016 09:23 am »
So here is the nagging problem. There is evidence for two upcoming Proton-M/Briz-M launches this year. Also evidence for two satellites; one referred to as article 14Ф149 and the other by its name Blagovest. So far not found any evidence that Blagovest is article 14Ф149. Any suggestions from the fragments of information if they are the same?

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #25 on: 02/22/2016 11:36 am »
So here is the nagging problem. There is evidence for two upcoming Proton-M/Briz-M launches this year. Also evidence for two satellites; one referred to as article 14Ф149 and the other by its name Blagovest. So far not found any evidence that Blagovest is article 14Ф149. Any suggestions from the fragments of information if they are the same?
They're both number 11L (i.e. first flight model) :-\

> Адаптация СУ РБ "Бриз-М" в обеспечение запуска КА «14Ф149 №11Л»
> на оказание финансовой услуги: страхование изготовления, сборки, испытаний и хранения КА "Благовест" №11Л
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
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« Reply #27 on: 03/25/2016 08:53 pm »
Ladies and gentlemen, Blagovest !

Picture from Reshetnev's gazeta n°399.


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« Reply #28 on: 06/29/2016 08:18 pm »
There is something referred to as article 14Ф151, and it sounds like it is going up on an Angara with a new type of fairing?
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Предмет договораМинимальные требования к закупаемым товарам (работам, услугам)
Разработка материалов составной части технического проекта. Разработка ГО для запуска КА КК 14К169 с использованием РН «Ангара-А5» и РБ «Бриз-М».ТЗ № К411-14П630-ТЗ.40-2015 № К411-14П221-ТЗ.41-2015
Создание второго рабочего места подготовки РН на техническом комплексе 14П630 КРК «Ангара» эскизный проект.ТЗ № К411-1-14П630-ТЗ.30-2015
Разработка головного обтекателя с увеличенной зоной полезной нагрузки в обеспечение запусков КА 14Ф151.ТЗ № К411-ГО14С746-ТЗ 3337
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/download/download.html?id=3136963
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/plan/info/actual-documents.html?planId=249514&planInfoId=1049524&versioned=&activeTab=1
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #29 on: 07/02/2016 05:28 pm »
Blagovest and Sfera are part of the same project; and it was to have been implemented by 2020.
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Перспектива развития отечественной военной спутниковой связи определена проектами ТТЗ на создание перспективных ретрансляторов «Сфера» и «Благовест», в которых определены следующие направления:
- Освоение миллиметрового диапазона волн;
- Увеличение пропускной способности спутниковых радиолиний;
- Реализация коммутации каналов и пакетов в ретрансляторах;
- Реализация режима зонального обслуживания.
Планируемые к разработке комплексы станций спутниковой связи в ОКР «Сфера», «Передатчик» направлены на создание для всех видов ВС РФ унифицированной модульной программируемой станции, при этом типоразмеры станций варьируются от портативных приемопередатчиков до крупногабаритных станций, устанавливаемых на кораблях ВМС и стационарных узлах связи. Однако все модификации оборудования данного семейства обладают полной электромагнитной совместимостью, а также допускают дальнейшее наращивание функциональных возможностей и улучшение технических характеристик.
Разработку нового поколения станций спутниковой связи для работы с новыми ретрансляторами «Сфера», «Благовест» планируется осуществить к 2020 году. Для подготовки к серийному выпуску нового поколения станций предприятие проводит глубокую модернизацию технологического оборудования, внедряет новые технологии, осуществляет комплексную автоматизацию всего производственного процесса.
http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/files.aspx?id=32628&type=2
http://www.e-disclosure.ru/portal/FileLoad.ashx?Fileid=1117199
Sfera has been delayed and a further four Meridian have been ordered as a replacement.

Reshetnev are also working on the Geo-IK-3, but I am not sure if that is just the satellite called Geo-IK-3 because it consists of various types of satellites.
https://www.glonass-iac.ru/content/news/?ELEMENT_ID=1666
ftp://ns.ipa.nw.ru
https://www.glonass-iac.ru/aboutIAC/Report%20by%20Kosenko%20Zvonar_3.pdf

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #30 on: 07/14/2016 07:25 pm »
Maybe it can interest some of you. I've published a big story about Molniya comsats.

http://www.kosmonavtika.com/satellites/molnia/molnia.html
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #36 on: 06/22/2017 10:34 pm »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

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I was involved in the release of this information, so here's some background.

While I was writing an article for Jane's Intelligence Review on current Russian intelligence-gathering satellites, someone at Jane's notified me of a picture taken during a visit by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to ISS Reshetnev on 6 June. It showed Shoigu's delegation watching a board containing information on satellites called Repei-V and Repei-S ("repei" meaning "burdock"), which had never been identified before. Since they were shown to the Russian Defense Minister, it was clear that these were classified military satellites and that they had appeared in the picture by accident. We believe (but cannot tell for sure) that the picture was originally on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense and was subsequently removed. The remaining pictures are here:

http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12127280@egNews

The picture (taken by a TASS photographer) remains available on the websites of the TASS photo agency and Getty Images. The credit for spotting it goes entirely to the team at Jane's.

I was then asked to do a quick write-up on Repei that would be included in the article. This was published online yesterday, but is only available to subscribers.

The board is only visible from an angle and shows a satellite with two large antennae. The information is hard to read even with image enhancement, but what *is* clear is that Repei-V satellites are to be placed into highly elliptical orbits ("V" standing for the Russian word "vysokoellipticheskiy", highly elliptical) and Repei-S into geostationary orbit ("S" standing for "statsionarnyy").

One possibility is that these are military communications satellites. ISS Reshetnev is known to be working on next-generation military comsats to be deployed into highly elliptical orbits (to replace the Meridian constellation) and geostationary orbits (to replace the Raduga-1M constellation). These have been identified in the Russian press as Sfera-S and Sfera-V, but Repei-S and Repei-V could be internal Ministry of Defense designators for these satellites (there are also two names circulating for the current geostationary comsats : Raduga-1M and Globus-1M). One of the words on the board appears to be  "coverage zone" ("zona obsluzhivaniya" : literally translated "service zone"), which may indeed be indicative of a comsat.

Another, more intriguing possibility is that Repei-S and Repei-V are the first Russian signals intelligence satellites to be placed into high orbits (possibly using the same bus as Sfera-S and Sfera-V). There has been some speculation that ISS Reshetnev satellites identified in a handful of official documents as 11F141 and 11F144 are SIGINT satellites. These have earlier been rumored to be named Labirint. One would be the equivalent of the American Jumpseat satellites in Molniya-type orbits and the other the equivalent of the American Magnum/Orion/Mentor/SHARP satellites in geostationary orbit. See this thread on NSF :

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36887.0

ISS Reshetnev is known to be working on large antennas under a research project known as Pribor-Reflektor. These have been linked to civilian comsat projects, but might just as well have other applications. See :

https://www.iss-reshetnev.ru/media/newspaper/newspaper-2015/newspaper-375.pdf
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ska.html

In short, the jury remains out on the purpose of the Repei satellites. 

This is all that I've been able to decipher on the board. Unfortunately, none of the numbers are clearly visible.

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Repei-S :
Purpose (?) : … Repei-S is being developed in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence.

- Orbit : geostationary
- Coverage zone  of the orbital constellation of satellites :  from ?? NL to ?? NL   (NL=northern latitude), without restrictions in longitude
- Launch mass, kg : ??
- Output of solar panels under minimum lighting conditions, ??
- Power available for payload, W    ??
      
Repei-V :

- Orbit : highly elliptical
- Coverage zone of the orbital constellation of satellites   : from (??) NL to (??) NL, without restrictions in longitude.
- Launch mass, kg : ??        
- Output of solar panels under minimum lighting conditions, W : ??
- Power available for payload, W : ??


One correction to my article : I wrote that Shoigu's visit was not mentioned on the ISS Reshetnev website, but while it was not mentioned in their press releases, I've since been told that the company did put a brief video report on its website :





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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #37 on: 06/22/2017 11:27 pm »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

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Is this the ССКМС satellites?
http://izvestia.ru/news/589798

Thanks, Stan,  for the link. Yet another possibility...

For those not fluent in Russian, SSKMS stands for "Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System". According to the Izvestia article (August 2015) it was a merger of two projects that had been considered earlier : four satellites in highly elliptical orbits (under research project Ellips) and three satellites in geostationary orbit (under research project Yenisey). First launch was planned for 2019. Due to budget cuts, the two projects were integrated into one involving a total of four satellites : two in geostationary orbit (to be launched in 2021 and 2025) and two in highly elliptical orbits (to be launched in 2023 and 2025).

A TASS report in January 2016 said that the the launches of the satellites had been completely eliminated from the latest version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025. 
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2586264

However, in May this year a tender was announced for the development of specialized equipment for the satellites under the project name "Modul PM - SSKMS". Development ("technical project" phase) to be completed in November 2021. Deadline for submitting proposals was 31 May.
https://fintender.ru/star/region/Moskva/l0995000000217000039-1

 



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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #38 on: 06/22/2017 11:55 pm »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

source

Is this the ССКМС satellites?
http://izvestia.ru/news/589798

Thanks, Stan,  for the link. Yet another possibility...

For those not fluent in Russian, SSKMS stands for "Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System". According to the Izvestia article (August 2015) it was a merger of two projects that had been considered earlier : four satellites in highly elliptical orbits (under research project Ellips) and three satellites in geostationary orbit (under research project Yenisey). First launch was planned for 2019. Due to budget cuts, the two projects were integrated into one involving a total of four satellites : two in geostationary orbit (to be launched in 2021 and 2025) and two in highly elliptical orbits (to be launched in 2023 and 2025).

A TASS report in January 2016 said that the the launches of the satellites had been completely eliminated from the latest version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025. 
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2586264

However, in May this year a tender was announced for the development of specialized equipment for the satellites under the project name "Modul PM - SSKMS". Development ("technical project" phase) to be completed in November 2021. Deadline for submitting proposals was 31 May.
https://fintender.ru/star/region/Moskva/l0995000000217000039-1

 

So this would make them the Russian equivalent to the US MUOS satellites, which do look somewhat similar with their two large antennas
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/muos-1.htm

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #39 on: 06/23/2017 08:17 am »
Power supply to the P/L seems to be 4332 W for Repei-V

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #40 on: 06/23/2017 10:17 am »
Report: Russia may have accidentally revealed new military satellites

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Is this the ССКМС satellites?
http://izvestia.ru/news/589798

Thanks, Stan,  for the link. Yet another possibility...

For those not fluent in Russian, SSKMS stands for "Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System". According to the Izvestia article (August 2015) it was a merger of two projects that had been considered earlier : four satellites in highly elliptical orbits (under research project Ellips) and three satellites in geostationary orbit (under research project Yenisey). First launch was planned for 2019. Due to budget cuts, the two projects were integrated into one involving a total of four satellites : two in geostationary orbit (to be launched in 2021 and 2025) and two in highly elliptical orbits (to be launched in 2023 and 2025).

A TASS report in January 2016 said that the the launches of the satellites had been completely eliminated from the latest version of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025. 
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2586264

However, in May this year a tender was announced for the development of specialized equipment for the satellites under the project name "Modul PM - SSKMS". Development ("technical project" phase) to be completed in November 2021. Deadline for submitting proposals was 31 May.
https://fintender.ru/star/region/Moskva/l0995000000217000039-1


The latest contract for Reflektor-2025, makes reference to satellites in both stationary orbit and highly elliptical orbit.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/common-info.html?reestrNumber=4770238802716000125
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/44fz/filestore/public/1.0/download/priz/file.html?uid=3AE25873A7DC00A2E053AC1107258C42

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Работы по созданию изделий должны проводиться с учетом научно- технического и производственного задела, полученного при выполнении ОКР «Прибор»-(Рефлектор) в рамках государственного контракта от 19.09.2012 №307-8559/12 и эскизного проекта на создание системы спутниковой конфиденциальной мобильной связи (ССКМС) в рамках государственного
контракта от 25.09.2012 №307-5025/12.

Contract №307-5025/12 is for Yenisey-A1.
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« Reply #41 on: 06/24/2017 08:15 am »
The second ammendment to the Yenisey-A1 contract, dated 25th December 2014, added this item:-
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Разработка эскизного проекта на создание системы спутниковой (ВП) конфиденциальной мобильной связи (ССКМС)
Цена этапа (тыс. руб.) 179 900
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/contract/contractCard/document-info.html?reestrNumber=0173100007012000295
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« Reply #42 on: 06/24/2017 10:10 am »
Power supply to the P/L seems to be 4332 W for Repei-V

Satellite mass for Repei-V appears to be 3223 kg, total output of solar arrays 11900 W and coverage zone 20° to 90° northern latitude.

That appears to be the coverage zone for SSKMS satellites in highly elliptical orbits seen in this presentation by ISS Reshetnev chief Testoyedov (see p. 14) :

https://tp.iss-reshetnev.ru/documents/thesis-npk-2016/thesis-ao-iss-testoedov-2016.pdf

While the satellites would cover only Russian territory, the actual coverage circle seems to go down to about 20° NL. This, along with the procurement documents linking Pribor-Reflektor to SSKMS, now clearly makes SSKMS the leading candidate for Repei.  Kudos to Stan Black for piecing together all the bits of the puzzle.

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« Reply #43 on: 06/24/2017 01:26 pm »
Additional details on frequency usage for SSKMS appeared in this presentation from Reshetnev in 2015
http://2015.archive.spectrforum.project-si.ru/files/2015/programma/kuzovnikov-a_v_informacionnye-sputnikovye-sistemy.pdf

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« Reply #44 on: 07/06/2017 10:37 pm »
I'd like to come back for a moment to the Repei-V and Repei-S satellites that accidentally appeared in a picture of a board shown to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a visit to ISS Reshetnev on 6 June. I'm having second thoughts about the likelihood of Repei being related to the SSKMS mobile satellite communication system, which is one of the possibilities put forward earlier in this thread.

1) SSKMS is a dual-use civilian/military system ordered by Roskosmos (that is obvious from the openly available procurement documents related to SSKMS and the fact that it was supposed to be included in the Federal Space Program 2016-2025). The board showing Repei says it was developed in the interests of the Ministry of Defence.

2) It would seem that the four SSKMS satellites that were left after an initial round of budget cuts in 2015 were scrapped altogether from the Federal Space Program 2016-2025.
TASS report :
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2586264
Roskosmos presentation, December 2015, see slide 21
http://sovet.cosmos.ru/sites/default/files/prez-p2-1224.pptx

Why showcase them to the Minister of Defense if they're unlikely to fly before 2025?

3) The geostationary and Molniya/Tundra orbit components of SSKMS were identified in this ISS Reshetnev presentation (September 2015) as Yenisey-V and Yenisey-S (see p. 5).
http://2015.archive.spectrforum.project-si.ru/files/2015/programma/kuzovnikov-a_v_informacionnye-sputnikovye-sistemy.pdf

Why use an alternative name for a publicly known system?


Leaving aside the unlikely possibility that Repei is an internal Ministry of Defence name for the Sfera military communications satellites, my best guess now is that Repei-V and Repei-S are SIGINT satellites. These had earlier been rumored to be called Labirint and may have the designators 14F141 and 14F144 that appear in a handful of official documents. See this thread:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36887.0
 
It's interesting that a satellite looking very similar to Repei appeared in a PowerPoint presentation given by ISS Reshetnev chief Nikolai Testoyedov at space conference outside Moscow in September 2016.
https://tp.iss-reshetnev.ru/documents/thesis-npk-2016/thesis-ao-iss-testoedov-2016.pdf

The satellite can be seen in slides 16 and 17, which show a proposed "Integrated Space System" for Russia. It is shown together with two other satellites that are part of what is called "OG KA RTRR i RP". My understanding is that this stands for "Orbital constellation of satellites for radiotechnical reconnaissance (=ELINT) and radio interception (=COMINT)" (although, admittedly, the common Russian acronyms for ELINT and COMINT are RTR and RR). There is a green arrow pointing from those three satellites to "Reconnaissance and information assets".

I've attached a close-up of the three satellites and a close-up of Repei as seen in the board shown to Defense Minister Shoigu. Note the similarity of the upper of the three satellites to Repei (two small and two big antennas, same solar panels). The satellite on the right is identical to the one shown on p. 13 and 14  of the ISS Reshetnev presentation that I mentioned above, where it is identified as Gonets M1 (a civilian store-dump comsat system). I haven't been able to readily identify the satellite on the left. 

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. If RTRR and RP indeed stand for ELINT and COMINT, why is Gonets M1 included? And if the Repei look-alike satellite is indeed a top-secret SIGINT satellite, why would Testoyedov show it in an openly available presentation? I should point out in this respect that an ISS Reshetnev insider posting on the "Novosti kosmonavtiki" forum has said that the drawing of Repei shown to Shoigu was made with a certain "artistic freedom", meaning it may not be an accurate representation of the actual design. Perhaps this explains why a similar "'polished" drawing of the satellite made it into Testoyedov's presentation.   

Incidentally, that same ISS Reshetnev insider has not revealed the nature of the satellite and even asked the moderators of the NK forum to remove the Repei thread that I had started (which has not happened so far). That in itself is telling. SIGINT is a far more sensitive area than communications.

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« Reply #45 on: 07/07/2017 02:42 pm »
That thesis-ao-iss-testoedov-2016.pdf has been removed?

What do you make of this?
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КА 1, КА 2, КА 3, КА 4
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КА 1 – эксплуатация, КА 2, КА 3 – НЭО, КА 4-выпуск КД
http://www.raaks.ru/docs/doc20170315_019.pdf

Olimp-K?
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« Reply #46 on: 07/07/2017 10:00 pm »
The satellite can be seen in slides 16 and 17, which show a proposed "Integrated Space System" for Russia. It is shown together with two other satellites that are part of what is called "OG KA RTRR i RP". My understanding is that this stands for "Orbital constellation of satellites for radiotechnical reconnaissance (=ELINT) and radio interception (=COMINT)" (although, admittedly, the common Russian acronyms for ELINT and COMINT are RTR and RR). There is a green arrow pointing from those three satellites to "Reconnaissance and information assets".

I've attached a close-up of the three satellites and a close-up of Repei as seen in the board shown to Defense Minister Shoigu. Note the similarity of the upper of the three satellites to Repei (two small and two big antennas, same solar panels). The satellite on the right is identical to the one shown on p. 13 and 14  of the ISS Reshetnev presentation that I mentioned above, where it is identified as Gonets M1 (a civilian store-dump comsat system). I haven't been able to readily identify the satellite on the left. 

The Repei look alike in your first picture has small solar panels for its antenna size. If it were a low-frequency communication satellite for mobile users, it would probably look more like MUOS and have bigger panels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System#/media/File:MUOS_new.jpg
On the other hand a GEO SIGINT bird does not need that much transmit power because it is usually serving only one or two ground stations with high-gain antennas, so small panels are enough.
So that satellite might be SIGINT. In that case, the large antennas are for the collection, and the small ones for the downlink to the ground station. The US Orion satellites use that system. However I don't see any antenna forest like on the Orions, so the system appears to be narrowband, which is strange for a SIGINT system.

The satellite on the left looks like MUOS, although with additional antennas on the Earth deck.

So the sat on the right is communication for sure based on what you say, the one on the left looks very much like a UHF comsat, and the one on top is ambiguous.  So I'd say if the integrated space system has both reconnaissance and information components, then the bottom two sats are information and the top one is reconnaissance.

Also, could you please attach the full pdf if you have it?
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« Reply #47 on: 07/07/2017 10:29 pm »
That thesis-ao-iss-testoedov-2016.pdf has been removed?

That's strange. The link was still working yesterday. Someone at ISS Reshetnev must be reading NSF  :)
Testoyedov's presentation is also available via this link with a complete transcript.

http://docplayer.ru/36231088-Perspektivy-i-prioritety-razvitiya-informacionnyh-sputnikovyh-sistem-generalnyy-direktor-ao-iss-testoedov-nikolay-alekseevich.html

Be quick to download it before it's too late... :)

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What do you make of this?КА 1, КА 2, КА 3, КА 4
Экспресс-1000H Экспресс-2000
TAS, NTSpace, отечественная кооперация
КА 1 – эксплуатация, КА 2, КА 3 – НЭО, КА 4-выпуск КД
 
http://www.raaks.ru/docs/doc20170315_019.pdf
Olimp-K?   

This means one satellite using the Express-1000N or Express-2000 bus is currently in orbit, two are undergoing ground tests (NEO = nazemnaya eksperimental'naya otrabotka) and one has entered the blueprint phase (KD = konstruktorskaya dokumentatsia). If no other Express-1000N or Express-2000 based satellite has been identified yet (haven't checked), the one currently in orbit could well be Olimp-K.

Speaking of which, according to an article in the Kommersant newspaper in March 2014 Olimp-K was supposed to fly a combined SIGINT/communications payload. It could well be some kind of precursor to Repei.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2436687

Some of the maneuvers it has made in the geostationary belt indicate it may be eavesdropping on other comsats (which is, of course, also a type of SIGINT), just like the American PAN satellites.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2839/2

Anatoly Zak has speculated that it is being used to provide communications for the Russian Navy.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/olymp.html

I presume the Repei satellites are based on the Express-2000 platform. The mass given for Repei-V on the board shown to Shoigu (although hard to read) appears to be 3223 kg (and the mass ISS Reshetnev gives for satellites using the Express-2000 platform is around 3250 kg). Moreover, it is known from ISS Reshetnev publications that the Express-2000 platform was designed to perform missions in both geostationary and highly elliptical orbits, meaning it could be used for both Repei-S (geostationary) and Repei-V (highly elliptical). Express-2000 is always linked to Proton-M (not Angara), so could we be seeing the Proton launch Repei-V satellites into Molniya orbits from Baikonur? What would the payload capacity of the Proton be to that kind of orbit?

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« Reply #48 on: 07/07/2017 11:12 pm »


The Repei look alike in your first picture has small solar panels for its antenna size. If it were a low-frequency communication satellite for mobile users, it would probably look more like MUOS and have bigger panels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_User_Objective_System#/media/File:MUOS_new.jpg

On the other hand a GEO SIGINT bird does not need that much transmit power because it is usually serving only one or two ground stations with high-gain antennas, so small panels are enough.

The output of the solar panels (under minimum lighting conditions) for Repei-V appears to be 11900 W and power available for the payload 4332 W (see reply 39 in this thread). That does seem to be little taking into consideration the fact that the Express-2000 bus can provide a maximum of 13000W to a communications payload.

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So that satellite might be SIGINT. In that case, the large antennas are for the collection, and the small ones for the downlink to the ground station. The US Orion satellites use that system. However I don't see any antenna forest like on the Orions, so the system appears to be narrowband, which is strange for a SIGINT system.

The satellite on the left looks like MUOS, although with additional antennas on the Earth deck.

So the sat on the right is communication for sure based on what you say, the one on the left looks very much like a UHF comsat, and the one on top is ambiguous.  So I'd say if the integrated space system has both reconnaissance and information components, then the bottom two sats are information and the top one is reconnaissance.

Thanks for those observations. The strange thing is that there are two other satellite constellations shown in the slide that are related to communications. One is "Orbital constellation for relay of information" (which includes a Luch-5) and the other "Orbital constellation for communications and battle management (military, civilian, dual use)". So why do they show Gonets and a MUOS type satellite as being part of the SIGINT constellation?   

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Also, could you please attach the full pdf if you have it?

As I mentioned in my previous post, the link that I gave yesterday has suddenly become defunct, but the presentation is available via this alternative link:

http://docplayer.ru/36231088-Perspektivy-i-prioritety-razvitiya-informacionnyh-sputnikovyh-sistem-generalnyy-direktor-ao-iss-testoedov-nikolay-alekseevich.html

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #49 on: 07/07/2017 11:48 pm »

So that satellite might be SIGINT. In that case, the large antennas are for the collection, and the small ones for the downlink to the ground station. The US Orion satellites use that system. However I don't see any antenna forest like on the Orions, so the system appears to be narrowband, which is strange for a SIGINT system.

Don't forget (as I mentioned in my post yesterday) that the drawing of Repei and the one shown in Testoyedov's presentation may not be an accurate representation of the actual design.

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The satellite on the left looks like MUOS, although with additional antennas on the Earth deck.

I've attached the only drawings I've found of the Russian equivalent to MUOS (which is SSKMS, with Yenisey-S in geostationary orbit and Yenisey-V in Molniya or Tundra orbits). This is from this ISS Reshetnev presentation (p. 5)

http://2015.archive.spectrforum.project-si.ru/files/2015/programma/kuzovnikov-a_v_informacionnye-sputnikovye-sistemy.pdf

I'm not sure if this is an accurate representation of the design, but they do seem to be similar to the satellite on the left in Testoyedov's presentation.

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« Reply #50 on: 07/08/2017 09:29 am »
As I mentioned in my previous post, the link that I gave yesterday has suddenly become defunct, but the presentation is available via this alternative link:

http://docplayer.ru/36231088-Perspektivy-i-prioritety-razvitiya-informacionnyh-sputnikovyh-sistem-generalnyy-direktor-ao-iss-testoedov-nikolay-alekseevich.html


I've read the pdf and saw a few interesting things: if you look at the left satellite in your picture, it is also among the satellites shown for the "ОГ связи и боевого управления" constellation (with a vertical symmetry though). So it's very likely a comsat they copy-pasted to represent an asset they did not want to show, and same thing for the Gonets sat. If they applied the same logic for the top image, that means it is a comsat they put there to represent a SIGINT bird.

However they seem to have put images of LEO SIGINT birds in the constellation "ОГ КА ДЗЗ и добывания
видовой информации". The cross they carry looks like the one from Lotos (14F145): http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lotos.htm

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« Reply #51 on: 07/08/2017 02:54 pm »
« Last Edit: 07/08/2017 03:01 pm by Stan Black »

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« Reply #52 on: 07/08/2017 06:58 pm »
So the solar panels have either 37m² or 48m² of solar cells? 37 is for the Ekspress-1000 and 48 for the either Ekspress-2000 or Ekspress-4000?

There are references to two 14Ф151, №11 and №12, and two 14Ф152, №11 and №12. 194 or 196 of solar cells would point to them being based on the larger size? Angara-A5 Briz-M is the launch vehicle for the 14Ф151. These are not Repei as that contract had not been signed?

Gerakl-KV is the replacement for Garpun.

There is a reference to five satellites Ekspress AMU 3, 4 and 7, Yamal 601 and something referred to as just 763. Total amount of solar cells 180m² which points to them all being Ekspress-1000 based?

 
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« Reply #53 on: 07/09/2017 11:00 pm »
So the solar panels have either 37m² or 48m² of solar cells? 37 is for the Ekspress-1000 and 48 for the either Ekspress-2000 or Ekspress-4000?

The solar array area given for the Ekspress-2000 satellites currently in orbit is 88 m².

The mass of Repei (3223 kg for Repei-V on the board shown to Shoigu) suggests it will use the Express 2000 bus, but the power supply for the payload is much smaller than what Express 2000 is capable of providing (about 4 kilowatts as seen for Repei-V on the board vs. 14 kilowatts given for Express 2000 in ISS Reshetnev publications). Apparently, the very point of building platforms like Express 2000 and 4000 was to provide more power to the communication payloads. The question then is if the power supply of the bus can be tailored to the requirements of the payload.

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« Reply #54 on: 07/09/2017 11:33 pm »
As I mentioned in my previous post, the link that I gave yesterday has suddenly become defunct, but the presentation is available via this alternative link:

http://docplayer.ru/36231088-Perspektivy-i-prioritety-razvitiya-informacionnyh-sputnikovyh-sistem-generalnyy-direktor-ao-iss-testoedov-nikolay-alekseevich.html


I've read the pdf and saw a few interesting things: if you look at the left satellite in your picture, it is also among the satellites shown for the "ОГ связи и боевого управления" constellation (with a vertical symmetry though). So it's very likely a comsat they copy-pasted to represent an asset they did not want to show, and same thing for the Gonets sat. If they applied the same logic for the top image, that means it is a comsat they put there to represent a SIGINT bird.

However they seem to have put images of LEO SIGINT birds in the constellation "ОГ КА ДЗЗ и добывания
видовой информации". The cross they carry looks like the one from Lotos (14F145): http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lotos.htm

Yes, looks like we shouldn't read too much into the drawings shown in that presentation. Again, it's highly unlikely they will show an accurate drawing of a top-secret SIGINT satellite in an open presentation like that. It even looks like the drawing on the board shown to Shoigu is not an accurate representation of Repei, as an ISS Reshetnev insider has said on the NK forum.  The board has the classification level "DSP" ("dlya sluzhebnogo pol'zovania"), which is relatively low and equivalent to "For official use only" in the US. See :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_Russia

In other words, the most sensitive information on the satellites was not mentioned on the board. The only reason I can think of is that there were people present during Shoigu's visit that did not have the necessary security clearances to see that classified information (like media representatives).
 

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« Reply #55 on: 07/11/2017 03:41 pm »
Think I found the contract number:-

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Из материалов дела следует, что 23 октября 2015 годапервым заместителем прокурора Красноярского краявозбуждено дело об административном правонарушении ч. 1 ст. 14.55 КоАП РФ в отношении должностного лица ведущего менеджера проекта по теме ОКР «Акварель» «АО ИСС» Высоцкого С.В. по факту нарушения заводом условий государственного контракта от 28.04.2014 года № Н 3/2/1/16-14-ДОГОЗ по выполнению государственного оборонного заказа на выполнение опытно-конструкторской работы «Репей», а именно невыполнением в срок до 30.06.2015 года предусмотренных контрактом (пунктом 2.2) работ – разработка и защита эскизного проекта на КС.
https://rospravosudie.com/court-zheleznogorskij-gorodskoj-sud-krasnoyarskij-kraj-s/act-517792763/

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В перспективе к «Акварели» присоединятся и другие перспективные спутниковые системы. Для обеспечения такого соединения космических систем воедино военные предъявили требование совместимости и универсальности. На первом этапе «Акварель» будет работать в интересах ВМФ России, для которого также создается спутниковый комплекс обнаружения кораблей «Лиана» с аппаратами «Пион-НКС» и «Лотос-С».
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum12/topic2063/message1026635/#message1026635
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« Reply #56 on: 07/11/2017 07:14 pm »
Think I found the contract number:-

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Из материалов дела следует, что 23 октября 2015 годапервым заместителем прокурора Красноярского краявозбуждено дело об административном правонарушении ч. 1 ст. 14.55 КоАП РФ в отношении должностного лица ведущего менеджера проекта по теме ОКР «Акварель» «АО ИСС» Высоцкого С.В. по факту нарушения заводом условий государственного контракта от 28.04.2014 года № Н 3/2/1/16-14-ДОГОЗ по выполнению государственного оборонного заказа на выполнение опытно-конструкторской работы «Репей», а именно невыполнением в срок до 30.06.2015 года предусмотренных контрактом (пунктом 2.2) работ – разработка и защита эскизного проекта на КС.

In fact, the text of the judgement contains two different dates of contract, two different numbers of contract and two different job titles of Mr. Vysotsky. Quite enough to challenge it imho :-)
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« Reply #57 on: 07/11/2017 11:18 pm »
I suppose we should not assume that everyone reading this understands Russian, so here is some clarification. The document posted by Stan Black (dated 17 March 2016) is the response of a court in Zheleznogorsk (where ISS Reshetnev is based) to an appeal by S.V. Vysotskiy, identified in the document as ISS Reshetnev’s “leading manager” of the Akvarel project (at another point in the text he is called the leading manager of “theme 777”, which may be a code name for Akvarel).  Vysotskiy had been accused of breaching a contract on Akvarel signed between ISS Reshetnev and the Ministry of Defense and had been fined 30,000 rubles for doing so. The court overruled his appeal.

At several points in the text the date of the contract is given as 28 April 2014 and the contract number as N/2/1/5/14-DOGOZ. However,  at one point the date is given as 1 September 2014 and at another point the contract number is given as  N/3/2/1/16-DOGOZ.

At any rate, point 2.2. of the contract stipulated that ISS Reshetnev should finish the preliminary design ("eskiznyy proyekt") by 30 June 2015 (which didn’t happen). At one point in the text this part of the Akvarel project is identififed as Repei, so apparently Repei is part of the Akvarel project.

Also worth mentioning is that as part of the 28 April 2014 Akvarel contract,  ISS Reshetnev signed follow-up contracts with the TsNIRTI company in Moscow on 15 July 2014, 1 August 2014 and 13 April 2015. One of these was for the delivery of “RER” equipment. “RER” is the Russian acronym for signals intelligence. TsNIRTI has been the sole manufacturer of payloads for Soviet/Russian SIGINT satellites since the early 1960s.

What is Akvarel ?  To the best of my knowledge, all we know about it was published in a rather vague Izvestiya article back in 2013:

https://iz.ru/news/543325

The article described Akvarel as a “multi-position satellite reconnaissance system” that would initially  be used in the interests of the Russian Navy through the use of the Liana SIGINT constellation, but would later be joined by other reconnaissance satellites as well. The newspaper said TsNIRTI had won a tender to develop “the foundation” of Akvarel, namely a network of at least five ground stations spread over Russian territory (“from Kaliningrad to the Kamchatka peninsula”).

The most important thing to remember here is that if Repei is part of Akvarel, that would be more evidence that Repei is a SIGINT satellite. The only problem is that the court document describes Akvarel as a “low-orbiting satellite system”, which Repei clearly is not…

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« Reply #58 on: 07/12/2017 05:22 am »
Well, to clarify -- the quoted text is a carbon copy of another judgement made by the same judge on the same day for another person and another project: https://rospravosudie.com/court-zheleznogorskij-gorodskoj-sud-krasnoyarskij-kraj-s/act-517871101/

In several places the court failed to edit the new text on Mr. Vysotsky correctly, and the original info on Mr. Ivlev made it into the new decision. I'm really ashamed both with the quality of judgement and the fact this was heared and published openly.
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« Reply #59 on: 07/12/2017 12:51 pm »
Well, to clarify -- the quoted text is a carbon copy of another judgement made by the same judge on the same day for another person and another project: https://rospravosudie.com/court-zheleznogorskij-gorodskoj-sud-krasnoyarskij-kraj-s/act-517871101/

In several places the court failed to edit the new text on Mr. Vysotsky correctly, and the original info on Mr. Ivlev made it into the new decision. I'm really ashamed both with the quality of judgement and the fact this was heared and published openly.

Igor, it was not immediately obvious from your initial post that there was a second document, so thanks for clarifying this.

If I get it right, we’re talking about the following contracts then:

28 April 2014 : contract N/2/1/5/14 between ISS Reshetnev and the Ministry of Defence on the Akvarel project
This is the one that S.V. Vysotskiy was involved in as “leading manager” of Akvarel

1 September 2014 : contract N/3/2/1/16 between ISS Reshetnev and the Ministry of Defence on Repei
This is the one that A.L. Ivlev was involved in as “leading manager of theme 777” (which may be the code name for Repei)

In other words, the purported link between Akvarel and Repei is the result of an erroneous copy/paste between the two documents.
 
Still, there is a clue from the second document that Repei is a SIGINT satellite. As part of the 1 September 2014 Repei contract, ISS Reshetnev signed agreements on 1 October 2014 and 31 December 2014 with a company called NTTs KIUS Effes on such things as assessing the effectiveness and “combat readiness” of Repei, determining its performance characteristics and “means of protecting the Repei orbital constellation”.   

It is known from another document  that Effes (based in Yubileynyy in the Moscow region) was involved in the Liana SIGINT project:

http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/download/download.html?id=7012426

Its role was "to provide information and develop algorithms to process radio signals from the 14K159/160 system" (which are the designators for the two components of the Liana electronic intelligence system, Lotos-S and Pion-NKS).

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« Reply #60 on: 07/12/2017 04:07 pm »
Thank you Mr. Hendrickx. I do not speak Russian and was totally baffled with the two near identical documents.

Also looking at the format of other contract numbers Repei could be № З/2/1/16-14-ДОГОЗ. That is not a 3 at the start. The 14 is for the year.

Examples:-

№ З/2/1/12-14-ДОГОЗ от 27.08.2014 г.
Satellites Bars-M №3 to №6

№ З/2/1/11-14-ДОГОЗ от 01.09.2014 г.
Satellites Lotos-S №803, №804 and №805

№ Н/2/2/05-11-ДОГОЗ от 14.04.2011 г.
Blagovest

№ Н/2/2/07-11-ДОГОЗ от 21.12.2011 г.
Sfera

№ Р/2/2/01-11-ДОГОЗ от 28.02.2011 г.
Launch of Meridian № 15 and Kosmos-2479

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« Reply #61 on: 07/12/2017 05:54 pm »
If I get it right, we’re talking about the following contracts then:

28 April 2014 : contract N/2/1/5/14 between ISS Reshetnev and the Ministry of Defence on the Akvarel project
This is the one that S.V. Vysotskiy was involved in as “leading manager” of Akvarel

1 September 2014 : contract N/3/2/1/16 between ISS Reshetnev and the Ministry of Defence on Repei
This is the one that A.L. Ivlev was involved in as “leading manager of theme 777” (which may be the code name for Repei)

It's not easy to extract reliable information from texts so badly written but my impression was that correct numbers are

N/2/1/5-14 and
Z/2/1/16-14

where 14 means 2014.
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« Reply #62 on: 07/17/2017 03:17 pm »
Can anyone who understands Russian, access this document?
http://sudact.ru/regular/doc/bttsgnjVsplV/

I can only see it in Google cache.

It is a court judgement. I don’t understand the connection between the codes 14К166 and 14Ф149? Is 14К166 the entire system that includes the 14Ф149 Blagovest satellite?

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« Reply #63 on: 07/17/2017 09:14 pm »
Can anyone who understands Russian, access this document?
http://sudact.ru/regular/doc/bttsgnjVsplV/

I can only see it in Google cache.

It is a court judgement. I don’t understand the connection between the codes 14К166 and 14Ф149? Is 14К166 the entire system that includes the 14Ф149 Blagovest satellite?

Yes, that is how I would interpret this too.
I may have to read this more carefully, but apparently the original plan was to install the Mission Control Centre for 14F149/Blagovest in facilities that had earlier been earmarked for the Labirint-(V) project (which I think is also referred to in the document as 14K034, although that is open to interpretation). Labirint is described as having been suspended  (Labirint was earlier rumoured to be a SIGINT system). The MCC was to be located at "Object 413" of the Ministry of Defence, more particulary in Building nr. 31 (and the individual rooms in that building are also identified). However, more recently it was decided to install the control facilities at Building nr. 41A (also at Object 413), which was supposed to act as the control centre for the Kanopus-ST satellite (lost after launch in December 2015). This apparently is less costly than modifying the control rooms originally planned for Labirint.

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« Reply #64 on: 07/21/2017 12:46 pm »
From Geofizika-Kosmos 2015 and 2016 annual reports comes confirmation of something called Olimp-1, sometimes abbreviated to O-1.
https://disclosure.1prime.ru/portal/default.aspx?emId=7718649612
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« Reply #65 on: 11/13/2017 08:30 pm »
https://iz.ru/669012/dmitrii-strugovetc-aleksei-ramm/repei-uznaet-chuzhie-sekrety

Izvestia quotes a source within the Russian Air and Space Forces as saying that the first launch of ISS Reshetnyov's Repei signals intelligence satellite is scheduled for next year. This has not been confirmed by ISS Reshetnyov. The article says a model of the satellite was shown at a recent exhibition of the Ministry of Defense, but no further details are given beyond what was already known following Defense Minister Shoigu's visit to ISS Reshetnyov last June (see the discussion earlier in this thread).

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« Reply #66 on: 12/03/2017 10:21 am »
So this is a list of upcoming satellites from ISS Reshetnyov.

 
 
 
 
SatelliteBlagovestКА 14Ф149 «Благовест» 
Units№12, №13, №14№12, №13, №143
Launch vehicleProton-M rocket
Briz-M upper stage
14S75.15 type fairing
РН 8К82КМ «Протон-М»
РБ 14С43 «Бриз-М»
ГО 14С75.15
КК 14К166
Contract Н/2/2/05-11-ДОГОЗ от 14.04.2011г. 
FunctionCommunications  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteSfera-SКА 14Ф151 «Сфера-С»КС 14К044
Units№11, №12№11, №122
Launch vehicleAngara-A5 rocket
Briz-M upper stage
Fairing type 14S746
РН 14А127 «Ангара-А5»
РБ 14С43 «Бриз-М»
ГО 14С746
КК 14К169
Contract Н/2/2/07-11-ДОГОЗ от 21.12.2011г. 
FunctionCommunications  
NotesReplacement for Raduga-1M  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteSfera-VКА 14Ф152 «Сфера-В» 
Units№11, №12№11, №122
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
NotesReplacement for Meridian  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteGerakl-KVКА «Геракл-КВ» 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionRelay  
NotesReplacement for Garpun  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteMeridianКА 14Ф112 «Меридиан»  
Units №18, №19, №20, №214
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
NotesReplacement Meridians, due delay in Sfera-V  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteGLONASSКА 14Ф143 ГЛОНАСС 
Units №13, №14, №15, №16, №17, №18, №19, №20, №219
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionNavigation  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteOlimp-1КА «Олимп-1» 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionSignals intelligence  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
Satellite КА 763 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
Function   
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteYenisei-A1КА «Енисей-А1» 
Units№11, №12№11, №123 planned
Launch vehicle   
Contract №307-8559/12 от 19.09.2012г.
№307-5025/12 от 25.09.2012г.
№307-0307/16/167 от 25.10.2016г.
№307-0216/17/164 от 28.08.2017г.
 
FunctionMobile communicationsССКМС 
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteEllipsКА «Эллипс» 
Units№11, №12№11, №124 planned
Launch vehicle   
Contract №307-8559/12 от 19.09.2012г.
№307-5025/12 от 25.09.2012г.
№307-0307/16/167 от 25.10.2016г.
№307-0216/17/164 от 28.08.2017г.
 
FunctionMobile communicationsССКМС 
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteRepei-SКА «Репей-С» 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionSignals intelligence  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteRepei-VКА «Репей-В» 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionSignals intelligence  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteEkspress-AMU3КА «Экспресс-АМУ3» 
Units   
Launch vehicleProton-M rocket
Briz-M upper stage
14S75.15 type fairing
РН 8К82КМ «Протон-М»
РБ 14С43 «Бриз-М»
ГО 14С75.15
 
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
NotesReplacement for Ekspress-AM33  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteEkspress-AMU4КА «Экспресс-АМУ4» 
Units   
Launch vehicleProton-M rocket
Briz-M upper stage
14S75.15 type fairing
РН 8К82КМ «Протон-М»
РБ 14С43 «Бриз-М»
ГО 14С75.15
 
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
NotesReplacement for Ekspress-AM44  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteEkspress-AMU7КА «Экспресс-АМУ7» 
Units   
Launch vehicleProton-M rocket
Briz-M upper stage
14S75.15 type fairing
РН 8К82КМ «Протон-М»
РБ 14С43 «Бриз-М»
ГО 14С75.15
 
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteEkspress-80КА «Экспресс-80» 
Units   
Launch vehicleProton-M rocket
Briz-M upper stage
14S75.15 type fairing
РН 8К82КМ «Протон-М»
РБ 14С43 «Бриз-М»
ГО 14С75.15
 
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
SatelliteEkspress-103КА «Экспресс-103» 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
NotesShared launch with Ekspress-80  
 
 
 
 
SatelliteYamal-601КА «Ямал-601» 
Units   
Launch vehicle   
Contract   
FunctionCommunications  
Notes   
 
 
 
 
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #67 on: 02/01/2018 09:26 pm »
This year Reshetnyov plan to send to Plesetsk, Meridian №18, Rodnik blok №16 and GLONASS-K №15. To Baikonur Blagovest №13Л and №14Л.
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Организация доставки возвратной тары из-под КА 14Ф112М №18 с к. «Плесецк» в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки возвратной тары из-под КА 14Ф132 бл.№16 с к. «Плесецк» в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки возвратной тары из-под КА 14Ф143 №15 с к. «Плесецк» в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки КА 14Ф132 бл.16 на к. «Плесецк» ВС ИЛ-76
Организация доставки КА 14Ф149 №13Л на к. «Байконур» и возврат транспортировочной тары в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки КА 14Ф149 №14Л на к. «Байконур» и возврат транспортировочной тары в АО «ИСС»
Проведение испытаний 14Ф151.3410-0
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/plan/info/actual-positions.html?planId=399331&planInfoId=2218816&versioned=&activeTab=4&epz=true
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #68 on: 02/05/2018 06:29 pm »
14K048 Repei
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #69 on: 06/01/2019 03:33 pm »
This year Reshetnyov plan to send to Plesetsk, Meridian №18, Rodnik blok №16 and GLONASS-K №15. To Baikonur Blagovest №13Л and №14Л.
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Организация доставки возвратной тары из-под КА 14Ф112М №18 с к. «Плесецк» в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки возвратной тары из-под КА 14Ф132 бл.№16 с к. «Плесецк» в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки возвратной тары из-под КА 14Ф143 №15 с к. «Плесецк» в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки КА 14Ф132 бл.16 на к. «Плесецк» ВС ИЛ-76
Организация доставки КА 14Ф149 №13Л на к. «Байконур» и возврат транспортировочной тары в АО «ИСС»
Организация доставки КА 14Ф149 №14Л на к. «Байконур» и возврат транспортировочной тары в АО «ИСС»
Проведение испытаний 14Ф151.3410-0
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/plan/public/plan/info/actual-positions.html?planId=399331&planInfoId=2218816&versioned=&activeTab=4&epz=true

This year:-
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Организация доставки КА ГЛОНАСС №16 на космодром «Плесецк» и возврат транспортировочного контейнера в АО «ИСС» ВС ИЛ-76
Организация доставки КА ГЛОНАСС №13 на космодром «Архангельск» и возврат транспортировочного контейнера в АО «ИСС» ВС АН-124
Организация доставки КА 14Ф112М №19 на космодром «Плесецк» и возврат транспортировочного контейнера в АО «ИСС» ВС ИЛ-76
Организация доставки КА «Lybid» на космодром «Байконур» и возврат транспортировочной тары в АО «ИСС» ВС АН-124
Организация доставки МПН КА «Экспресс-80», КА «Экспресс-103» на космодром «Байконур» возврат транспортировочной тары в АО «ИСС» ВС АН-124
рганизация доставки КА «14Ф31» № 13 и возврат транспортировочного контейнера в АО «ИСС» ВС ИЛ-76
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #70 on: 11/01/2019 11:51 am »
Here is some new information on military satellites being developed by ISS Reshetnev.

ISPOLIN

First of all, a hitherto unknown project called “Ispolin” (“Giant”) has shown up in a handful of online sources.

http://www.rusea.info/eoaywinners/11992

Here the name is seen in a brief bio of an ISS Reshetnev designer named Yuri Oberemok (published in 2018). He is said to be taking part in the development of “communications satellites Repei, Yenisei-2, Sfera, Gerakl, Ispolin and the space observatory Millimetron”.   

http://www.keldysh.ru/microsatellites/Shestoperov_CV.pdf

This is the CV of a researcher of the Keldysh Insitute of Applied Mathematics (IPM) named Aleksei Shestopyorov. One of the research projects he’s been involved in is called Ispolin-IPM, described as “the study of the dynamics of the orientation and stabilization system of spacecraft with large-size non-rigid construction elements”.

A research project with exactly the same name is seen in the CV of another IPM researcher, Danil Ivanov:

http://www.keldysh.ru/microsatellites/Ivanov_CV_rus.pdf
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- (2017-2019) "Исследование динамики системы ориентации и стабилизации космических аппаратов с крупногабаритными нежесткими элементами конструкции", контракт No 1719187308551452246001974/320-8/17 с АО “ИСС”, Исполнитель 

- (2014-2015) "Разработка алгоритмов управления систем ориентации и стабилизации космических аппаратов с нежесткими крупногабаритными элементами конструкции", контракт No 770/770/98 с ОАО ИСС им. М.Ф. Решетнёва, Исполнитель. 

- (2014-2015)"Разработка методик высокоточного определения ориентации и управления низкоорбитальным КА с применением фильтра Калмана", контракт No 770/766/56 с ОАО ИСС им. М.Ф. Решетнёва, Ответственный исполнитель 

The name “Ispolin” is not mentioned here, but the period of the research is given as 2017-2019. Ivanov was also involved in two other ISS Reshetnev projects in 2014-2015. No names are given for those either, but the first one is also related to orientation and stabilization systems for spacecraft with “non-rigid large-size construction elements” and the second one had to with similar systems for “low-orbiting satellites”. The contract numbers given for these two projects are also seen in the CVs of two other IPM researchers and are linked there to Gerakl (“Hercules”) and Akvarel (“Watercolor”) respectively.

https://www.keldysh.ru/microsatellites/Roldugin_CV.pdf
(Gerakl-IPM)
https://www.keldysh.ru/microsatellites/Tkachev_CV.pdf
(Akvarel-IPM)

Gerakl (sometimes also referred to Gerakl-KV) is a top-secret communications satellite that has been mentioned in just a few sources since 2014. The official start date of the project is unknown. One source described it as a successor to the military Garpun data relay satellites.
https://www.ksc.ru/docs/trudy/info/trudy_5_2014(24).pdf
(see p. 44) 
(by the way, the same article also mentions a successor for the low-orbiting Rodnik store/dump communications satellites called “Klyuch” (“Key”))

As is known from one court document, Akvarel  is a low-Earth orbit signals intelligence satellite with a payload built by TsNIRTI in Moscow. The project got underway on 28 April 2014.
https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/2xgVt4pMICY4/
It is not quite clear how it will complement KB Arsenal’s Lotos-S SIGINT satellites, which also operate in relatively low orbits.

With the two other projects identified as Gerakl and Akvarel, there can be little doubt that the one that Ivanov worked on in 2017-2019 must be Ispolin.  The contract number given in the CV (1719187308551452246001974) makes it possible to find several procurement documents for Ispolin on the zakupki.gov.ru website (even though the name Ispolin doesn’t show up in any of them).

http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=4100199
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=4440091
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=4492341
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=4530649
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=4544619
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=5811089

These show that the project officially got underway on 26 May 2017 with a contract signed between ISS Reshetnev and the Ministry of Defense. Most of them are related to the testing of stationary plasma engines of the Keldysh Research Center called  KM-75. Involved in these tests is the Moscow Aviation Institute, which signed a contract with ISS Reshetnev for this work on 1 June 2017. The tests took place in vacuum chambers called KVU-90 (at the Keldysh Research Center) and GVU-600 (at ISS Reshetnev).

There is conflicting information on the capacity of the KM-75 thrusters. Some describe it as a 95mN thrust engine at 2.3 kW.  At the 2017 IAF Congress it was described as “an 800 volt engine” which was nearly ready for production after qualification tests of an experimental model.
https://tass.ru/kosmos/4588930

The KM-75 engine has been mentioned in at least two ISS Reshetnev papers.
http://files.mai.ru/site/conf/aik/2017/abstracts.pdf
(p. 92-93 : in Russian and English)

This one describes its possible use on an Express-1000 platform in conjunction with OKB Fakel’s  SPD-140D stationary plasma thrusters. The Fakel engine would be used to deliver the satellite to geostationary orbit and the Keldysh engine for orbit corrections in GEO.

https://vestnik.sibsau.ru/en_US/vestnik/808/
This paper (in English) says a combination of eight KM-75 thrusters could be used for both orbit raising and orbit corrections for a satellite using all-electric propulsion.

Another subcontractor for Ispolin identified in the procurement documentation on zakupki.gov.ru is the Zuyev Institute of Atmospheric Optics in Tomsk, Siberia. Its role is apparently to study the effects of solar light pressure on big antenna structures. See this joint paper by experts of the institute and ISS Reshetnev (in English)
https://symp.iao.ru/files/symp/ampl/14/presentation_11849.pdf

The Ispolin contract number also shows up in two other sources:

- on the website of the Institute of Computing Technologies of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences:
http://www.ict.nsc.ru/ru/science/project-show?id=277

This reveals that the institute signed a contract with ISS Reshetnev in February 2018 to assist in the development of the antenna deployment system.

- on the website of the Kazan National Research Technical University.  This shows that Ispolin will have an antenna operating in the P-band.


In short, it looks like Ispolin (and Gerakl) will be equipped with some type of large-size antenna (and so, for a change, the names of Russian satellites (“Giant” and “Hercules”) actually seem to make sense). For the past few years ISS Reshetnev has been studying large-size antennas with diameters of about 12 m, 24 m and 48 m. See for instance a slide from a 2018 ISS Reshetnev presentation in attachment 1:
https://aviatp.ru/files/aviaevents/Armiya-2018_pres/3_Vyzovy_i_perspektivy_VI_Khalimanovich_ISS.pdf

Gerakl and Ispolin could potentially carry any of these antennas.

The 48 meter antenna was studied under a research project called Pribor-(Reflektor) for which ISS Reshetnev signed a contract with Roscosmos on 19 September 2012.  The tender documentation (including technical specifications) is here:
http://zakupki.gov.ru/pgz/public/action/orders/info/order_document_list_info/show?source=epz&notificationId=3885465

According to the documentation, the antenna was to operate in the P and L bands (frequency range 0.2 -2.0 GHz) and an “experimental model” was to be developed by the end of 2015. It looks like that goal was achieved. The antenna is seen in this television report aired in 2015, devoted to the 5th anniversary of a large dome-shaped building (“Hangar 032) that ISS Reshetnev finished in 2010 for testing of large structures such as antennas and solar panels:


(1:15 to 1:30)

The backbone structure of this antenna is being developed by the Scientific Center of Applied Electrodynamics (NTs PE). See the slide in attachment 2.
http://mr.ifmo.ru/files/2017/scae.pdf

Antennas measuring 12 m and 22 m in diameter are being developed under a project called Reflektor-2025, for which ISS Reshetnev was awarded a contract in 2016. The tender documentation (including technical specifications) is here:
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/documents.html?regNumber=0995000000216000085

This calls for building “experimental versions” of the antennas by the end of 2025. These are seemingly intended for the Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System (SSKMS), a constellation of satellites in both highly elliptical and geostationary orbits. The original contract for SSKMS was signed between Roscosmos and ISS Reshetnev on 25 September 2012, but the project seems to have experienced lengthy delays.

At this point, it remains unclear which antenna Ispolin will carry and what exactly the satellite will be used for.


OLIMP-K

In the Olimp-K thread I recently wrote that there was evidence for the presence of two antennas on the Olimp-K satellite, namely a 12m antenna for “personal mobile communications” and a 2.2 meter Ku-band antenna: 
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=34315.100

When I posted the same information on the NK forum, an ISS Reshetnev insider replied that neither of these antennas are actually on board Olimp-K. The Ku-band antenna was definitely intended for Olimp-K, but somehow never made it into space. The payloads carried by Olimp-K therefore remain a mystery.

MERIDIAN-M

There is a significant amount of procurement documentation on Russia’s government procurement website that is based on a contract signed between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev on 29 March 2016  (contract number  1619187308361452246001779). The documentation does not mention a project name, but one of the documents refers to an on-board radio complex called 14R57 (Tsitron). It is known from other sources that this is the on-board radio complex of the Meridian satellites. Therefore, it looks like the contract signed in March 2016 is for the modified Meridian-M (14F112M) satellites.

According to a TASS report last May four Meridian-M satellites were ordered in 2017 (which somehow does not correspond with the contract date). The report quoted ISS Reshetnev director Testoyedov as saying the first one would be finished in late 2018, the second in 2019, the third in 2020 and the fourth in 2022. Defense minister Shoigu said the two first would be launched before the end of 2019.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/6495532

These are the Meridian satellites with serial numbers 18 to 21. Nr. 18 was launched on 30 July and recently published tender documentation for the transportation to Plesetsk of nr. 19 shows its launch can be expected shortly.

NEW INDEXES

A couple of new indexes for what appear to be military ISS Reshetnev projects have appeared online in recent months.
http://plesadm.ru/obshcestvennye-obsuzhdeniya.html

This is an announcement (dated 20 March 2019) of upcoming environmental impact hearings at Plesetsk. The announcement refers to “space communications complex 14K150”, “space complex 14K047” and “space system 14K048 with space complex 14K178 and space complex 14K179”.

These are the official Russian definitions for “space system” and “space complex”:

Space system (KS) : Set of one or several space complexes and special complexes intended to carry out purposeful tasks.

Space complex (KK) : set of functionally related orbital and ground-based technical assets, making it possible to carry out purposeful tasks based on the use of outer space both independently and as part of a space complex. A space complex may include spacecraft, orbit insertion preparation systems, spacecraft control systems, landing systems, buildings and supporting systems.

These definitions may raise more questions than they answer, but what is clear is that a “space system” is hierarchically higher than a “space complex”. Both “space systems” and “space complexes” have 14K designators (usually 14K0xx for “space systems” and 14K1xx for “space complexes”). There are also appear to be 14K designators for “rocket space complexes” (usually 14K2xx), which refer to the combination of the rocket and launch infrastructure for a specific project. Satellites get designators in the 14F series. In short, any given project may have several 14K and 14F designators.

14K150: since this is described as a communications satellite project, I’m assuming it is run by ISS Reshetnev, but it has not been directly linked to the the company. The designator shows up in two other online source:

https://www.hse.ru › data › 2013/05/31

This is the master thesis of a student at the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (written in 2013). The thesis deals with a so-called “Mobile Ground-Based Satellite Station” (MNSS) called “Ritm” (Rhythm). At one point, the author writes that it is intended to exchange information “via satellite channels of the 14K150 space communications complex”.    A picture of the MNSS shows a military truck with a satellite dish mounted on the roof (see attachment 3). The author also links MNSS to a “communications system” called Resurs, developed by NII TP. No other information on “Ritm” or “Resurs” seems to be available.

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/be/98/38/e7ea7a9a3ef46c/RU2548023C2.pdf
https://patents.google.com/patent/RU2548023C2/en

This patent filed in 2013 mentions the use of 14K150 as part of an “integrated communication system for surface ships”, adding that it would operate in the “decimeter waveband” (which is UHF).

All that can be deduced from this is that the 14K150 project got underway in or before 2013 and that it seems to be intended for communications with land and sea-based vehicles. Therefore, it could be a designator for the SSKMS mobile satellite communications project (started in 2012). 

14K048: this can be identified as the designator for the Repei signals intelligence project (based on a document that is no longer available online). The Repei constellation will consist of satellites in highly elliptical orbits (Repei-V) and geostationary orbits (Repei-S). It therefore looks like 14K178 and 14K179 are the “space complex” designators for these two components of the Repei project (although it is not clear which of the two stands for which component).

14K047/14F167: this index also shows up in procurement documentation published on zakupki.gov.ru in July and November 2018 and in March 2019.

http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31806737222
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31807164025
http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31907611803

No clues are given about the nature of this project, but the latest documentation talks about compiling a report “on readiness of space complex 14K047 with satellites 14F167 for test flights”. This would indicate the system is in an advanced state of development.

14F166 : finally, procurement documentation appeared online this September for “high-frequency tests” of an unidentified ISS Reshetnev satellite called 14F166. No other information on this satellite is available.

http://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31908275269

Most likely, all of these are indexes for known projects, but not enough information is available yet to conclusively link them to any of those. So far no 14K and 14F indexes are known for Akvarel, Gerakl and Ispolin. The 14F designators for Repei-S and Repei-V are also unknown.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #71 on: 12/27/2019 01:23 pm »
Procurement documentation that appeared online earlier this year makes it possibly to determine the start date of the Gerakl-KV project.  Gerakl-KV is a military communications satellite under development at ISS Reshetnev. Little is known about it, except that it will have one or more large-size parabolic antennas. One source has described it as a successor to the military data relay satellites known as Garpun.
https://www.ksc.ru/docs/trudy/info/trudy_5_2014(24).pdf
(p. 44)

The name Gerakl-KV appears in a contract signed last April by OKB Fakel, a manufacturer of thermal catalytic thrusters and electric engines.

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?style44=false&id=6761486

This refers back to the original contract for the project between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev, which was signed on 28 April 2014, the official start date of the project. The contract number is 1421187312811010128000590/N/2/1/4-14-DOGOZ. On exactly the same day the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev signed a contract for yet another military space project called Akvarel (low-orbiting signals intelligence satellites with a payload manufactured by TsNIRTI). For Akvarel only the last part of the contract number is so far known (N/2/1/5-14-DOGOZ). See this court document:
 https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/2xgVt4pMICY4/


Now that the full contract number for Gerakl-KV is known, it is possible to find several other contracts related to this project, even though the name Gerakl-KV is not mentioned in any of them. These contracts have the same basic 25-digit number as the 28 April 2014 contract, followed by a slash and different numbers denoting the specific contract.

One, awarded by ISS Reshetnev, is for testing of foreign-built connectors for satellites designated 14F159 and 14F167. 14F167 has been identified as an ISS Reshetnev satellite before (see Reply #70 in this thread) and the index 14F159 is seen for the first time.

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=7595220

This means that Gerakl-KV must be either 14F159 or 14F167 or that two different satellites are being developed under this project (which seems unlikely).

Other subcontractors apart from OKB Fakel are:

- KB Khimmash (the former “Isayev bureau”, now part of the Khrunichev Center): presumably for maneuvering engines and/or thrusters, although the presence of propulsion systems of both OKB Fakel and KB Khimmash is somewhat puzzling. The contract between ISS Reshetnev and KB Khimmash was signed on 1 April 2017. KB Khimmash in turn signed a contract for Gerakl-KV with NIIEM on 26 February 2019 for the delivery of electric heaters.
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=6808215


- NPP Kvant: presumably for the photovoltaic cells of the solar panels. Another company known to be involved in Gerakl-KV, PAO Saturn, is likely to provide the storage batteries. The contract between ISS Reshetnev and NPP Kvant was signed on 1 November 2017.
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=7362182


- NPP Geofizika-Kosmos : for the delivery of Sun and Earth sensors for the satellite’s orientation system  (this was already known from the company’s annual report for 2015)
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31806409392

- NPO PM MKB (a daughter company of ISS Reshetnev): its exact role in Gerakl-KV is not clear.
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31806643632


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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #72 on: 02/25/2020 01:11 pm »
Procurement documentation released by NPO PM MKB, a daughter company of ISS Reshetnev, makes it possible to identify with a fairly high degree of certainty two 14F indexes for military satellites being developed by ISS Reshetnev.  The contracts are presumably for ground equipment to test satellites or for containers needed to transport satellites.

14F158, an index not seen earlier, appears in documentation placed online last month:

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=32008770030
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=32008768906

The project name is not given, but two of the documents have a file name that includes the number “777”. This is a code that has earlier been used for the Repei signals intelligence satellites. While “777” is not seen in the number of the original Repei contract signed between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev on September 1, 2014, it does appear in several follow-on contracts known to have been concluded under Repei. In addition to that, the Repei project is referred to as “Theme 777” in this court document:
https://sudact.ru/regular/doc/M8an8de4SFWQ/

The Repei constellation will consist of satellites in highly elliptical orbits (Repei-V) and geostationary orbit (Repei-S). These likely have two different 14F indexes. The same goes for the Sfera-V and Sfera-S communications satellites, which are 14F151 and 14F152 (or vice versa). It is impossible to say at this point if 14F158 is Repei-S or Repei-V.  The other 14F index for Repei may well be 14F159, which is known to be an ISS Reshetnev satellite (see the previous post in this thread). 

Another index, 14F167, had already been linked to an ISS Reshetnev satellite earlier. It was mentioned along with 14F159 in one document known to be related to Gerakl-KV (see the previous post). Gerakl-KV is probably a large communications satellite, possibly a successor of the Garpun military data relay satellites.

Several recent NPO PM MKB contracts now seem to confirm that 14F167 is Gerakl-KV.

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?d-2765352-p=2&regNumber=31908105278
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?d-2765352-p=2&regNumber=31908230769
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31908276253

Some of the documents include both the index 14F167 and the number 770, which is also seen in several contracts signed under Gerakl-KV (although it is not in the original contract signed between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev on April 28, 2014).  Gerakl is also referred to as “770” in this brief biography of an ISS Reshetnev researcher:

http://rusea.info/eoaywinners/10956

One other military satellite under development at ISS Reshetnev has the index 14F166 and it could be either Akvarel or Ispolin, two satellites with no known 14F indexes. 


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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #73 on: 04/15/2020 06:51 pm »
Some new tidbits of information on military satellites of ISS Reshetnev, mainly drawn from court documents:

Garpun

https://kad.arbitr.ru/Card/703e3210-77e3-4ef2-9edc-9c6cf9561523
https://kad.arbitr.ru/Card/3678d044-2bd5-4836-a97f-e45cdbc97035


Garpun ("Harpoon") is the name of two military data relay satellites launched in September 2011 (14F136 nr. 11L) and December 2015 (14F136 nr. 12L). Very little is known about them. The court documents reveal that the project began on 22 March 1993, which means it took almost twenty years for the first satellite to reach the launch pad.  The documents detail problems encountered by both satellites both on the ground and in orbit. Some of these had to do with the on-board radio complex known as 14R512. The manufacturer of this (NPTs SPURT) went bankrupt in 2013, forcing another company (the Vega Concern) to take over the work. There were also problems with a laser terminal (LT-150) developed by NPK SPP, which is known to have been used in experiments to relay information from Persona photoreconnaissance satellites. According to the documents, one of the problems during on-orbit testing of the second satellite was that the third Persona photoreconnaissance satellite (14F137 nr. 3) was “not ready” (which is strange, because it was launched in June 2015, six months before the Garpun satellite).

The documentation also makes it possible to identify the “space complex” designator of Garpun as 14K155, an index that had earlier not yet been linked to a specific satellite system. 

Rodnik


http://kad.arbitr.ru/Card/70a6e5d2-8caf-4708-9c72-b62bba599894

This recent court case between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev revolved around delays in the launch of the latest trio of Rodnik satellites (orbited in November 2018). These were the result of Western-imposed sanctions that complicated the delivery of US-built electronic components for the satellites’ on-board radio complex, identified as 14R59 (built by NII TP, the Scientific Research Institute of Precision Instruments). However, in the end the satellites do seem to have flown with the originally planned electronic components.

The document also gives the “space complex” index for Rodnik, namely 14K150. This had been seen in some earlier documentation, but could not be linked to a specific satellite project (see Reply 70 in this thread). As was already known, the individual Rodnik satellites have the index 14F132.

Klyuch

http://kad.arbitr.ru/Card/f17c2eaa-941e-4f21-8161-0154193014a4

These are recent court documents related to a satellite project known as Klyuch (“Key”) that began with a contract (nr. 1520187310651010128001483) signed between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev on 16 November 2015. The purpose of the satellites is not mentioned, but one source earlier identified Klyuch as a successor to the Rodnik satellites.

https://www.ksc.ru/docs/trudy/info/trudy_5_2014(24).pdf
(p. 42)

Some of the information given in the documents leaves no doubt that this identification is correct. The purpose of the 2015 contract was “to modernize an existing satellite and continue its use as part of an orbital constellation”. More specifically, foreign-built electronic components used in the satellites’ on-board radio complex were to be replaced to the maximum extent possible by Russian-built electronic components. In other words, the same problem that plagued the latest trio of Rodnik satellites (the Western-imposed sanctions) necessitated changes to the next generation of satellites.

The legal dispute between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev resulted from delays in finishing the preliminary design of the satellites. ISS Reshetnev argued that these had been caused by contradictory requirements for the on-board radio equipment. The currently used satellites (that is the Rodniks) use non-secret communications channels in accordance with requirements stipulated by the Ministry of Defense in 2005. In 2013 the Ministry of Defense decided that secret communications channels would have to be used, but these would require significant changes to the satellites (essentially turning them into new satellites) and make it impossible for them to exchange information with the older satellites. Apparently, this was not taken into account in the 2015 contract, which called for only slightly modifying the new satellites and including them in the existing constellation. 

ISS Reshetnev solved the dilemma by producing two preliminary designs, one with and the other without the secret communications channels, but this led to delays and cost overruns. The Ministry of Defense eventually picked one of these designs in September 2017 (almost a year after receiving them), but it is not clear from the documentation which.     

All the Rodnik satellites were launched by the Rokot booster, which has now been retired. The civilian Gonets satellites, which use a similar design, have been moved to the Angara 1.2 rocket, so it is likely that the Klyuch satellites will use that rocket as well. 

Repei

Procurement documentation published last December confirms that the Repei signals intelligence satellites have the indexes 14F158 and 14F159. One of those (not clear which one) is for the satellites in highly elliptical orbits (Repei-V) and the other for the geostationary satellites (Repei-S).

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/contract/public/contract/view/general-information.html?id=8321201

This is for work under a contract between ISS Reshetnev and the Moscow Aviation Institute to test the effects that the plumes of ion thrusters have on certain satellite materials. It seems that both 14F158 and 14F159 will use the KM-75 stationary plasma thrusters of the Keldysh Research Center. The same type of thruster will be used by the Ispolin satellites, discussed earlier in this thread. 

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #74 on: 02/27/2021 10:24 pm »
Cross-posted from the thread "Plan of Russian space launches".

 https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26990.2080


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The attached list is taken from the website of the Scientific Technological Center "Space Instrument Building" (NTTs KP), which belongs to Novosibirsk State University in Siberia.

http://www.phys.nsu.ru/ntc%5Fkp/proekty/

Among other things, NTTs KP tests components of satellites built by ISS Reshetnev and NPO Lavochkin. The list gives the start and completion dates for tests to be conducted in the coming years. One can assume that at least several months elapse between the completion of the tests and the actual launch of the satellites, so the list gives a rough idea of possible launch dates. This is especially interesting for two types of military satellites mentioned in the list, namely Repei and Sfera, both built by ISS Reshetnev.

Sfera is the name of of a military communications satellite, one version of which (Sfera-S) is intended to fly in geostationary orbit (Sfera-S) and the other (Sfera-V) in highly elliptical orbits. Their military designators are 14F151 and 14F152, but it is not clear which index stands for which satellite. Repei is the name of a signals intelligence satellite, one version (Repei-S) for GEO and the other (Repei-V) for HEO. Their military designators are 14F158 and 14F159, but here as well it is not clear which satellites they stand for.

The component to be tested by NTTs KP for these satellites is called MBKAP, which stands for "Small-Size On-Board Complex for Analysis of Interference", possibly some type of system to protect the satellites from electronic jamming. MBKAP testing for 14F158 and 14F159 is planned for January-March 2021 and July-September 2021. The least this tells us is that one Repei-S and one Repei-V satellite are currently under construction and that they may be launched in the not too distant future with relatively small intervals.

Sfera seems to be significantly lagging behind. MBKAP testing for 14F151 nr. 11 and nr. 12 is planned for July-September 2023 and October-December 2023. This means that these satellites are unlikely to be launched before 2024. There is no sign in the list of 14F152. The Sfera project has been underway since December 2011 and has clearly suffered numerous delays. One Russian press article several years ago said the project had fallen victim to Western sanctions, which made it necessary to switch to electronic components from other suppliers that made the satellites much heavier than originally planned.

All these satellites are presumably supposed to be launched by Angara-A5 rockets from Plesetsk, so their launch dates obviously also hinge on the availability of these rockets in the coming years.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #75 on: 04/23/2021 03:54 pm »
A master’s thesis written by a student of the Siberian Federal University and published in 2017 contains a drawing of the antenna of ISS Reshetnev’s Sfera military communications satellites, more particularly the one designated 14F151.

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/94906833.pdf
(see p. 40)

Sfera will consist of a constellation of satellites in highly elliptical orbits (Sfera-V) and geostationary orbit (Sfera-S). The satellite designators are 14F151 and 14F152, but it still not clear which of those is Sfera-V and which is Sfera-S. The fact that only 14F151 is mentioned in the thesis would indicate that there are differences between the antennas carried by the two types of satellites.

The thesis deals with a system called BK KPFR, which is intended to monitor the position and shape of the parabolic reflector antenna and can help troubleshoot potential problems with its deployment. The text actually mentions two antennas (referred to as An11 and An12) which appear to be very similar and are seemingly carried together by one and the same satellite. The only one depicted in the thesis is An11 (see attachment 1).

The BK KPFR system consists of “monitoring elements” (KE or КЭ), “specialized laser scanners” (SLS or СЛС) and “angle measurement instruments” (UP or УП). The “monitoring elements” are corner reflectors that are installed on both the parabolic reflector antenna (25 on both the An-11 and An-12 antenna) and on the backside of the feed array (10 on that of the AN-11 antenna and 14 on that of the AN-12 antenna). The laser scanners and angle measurement instruments are both used to determine the exact coordinates of the corner reflectors and send those data to the on-board computer. In addition to that, the angle measurement instruments contain a camera that makes images of the antenna’s deployment process. A maximum of 25 images can be stored on board for later relay to the ground.  Each of the two antennas has two laser scanners and four angle measurement instruments (some of them acting as back-ups).  The thesis also contains drawings of the antennas and the backside of the feed arrays as seen from some of the angle measurement instruments (attachments 2 and 3).


Sfera-V and Sfera-S will together comprise the third so-called Integrated Space Communications System (ESSS-3). This will replace ESSS-2, which consists of Meridian-M satellites in Molniya orbits and Globus-1M (also called Raduga-1M) satellites in geostationary orbit. A PowerPoint presentation available online shows the orbital configuration of both ESSS-2 and ESSS-3, including planned locations for the Sfera-V satellites in geostationary orbit (attachment 4). The presentation was made in 2016 by an unidentified university. At the time, deployment of ESSS-3 was scheduled to begin in 2020.
https://ppt-online.org/805112
(see the eighth slide)

As mentioned in the previous post, the launch of the first two 14F151 satellites now seems to be planned for no earlier than 2024, more than twelve years after the Sfera project was approved. This could be determined from a schedule for tests of satellite components published on the website of a center belonging to Novosibirsk State University.
http://www.phys.nsu.ru/ntc_kp/proekty/
The list (containing both NPO Lavochkin and ISS Reshetnev satellites) included four military ISS Reshetnev satellites, namely 14F151 nr. 11 and 12, one 14F158 and one 14F159 satellite (the latter two being Repei signals intelligence satellites).  Interestingly, these four satellites vanished from the list several days after I referenced the website in an article on Russian signals intelligence satellites published on The Space Review earlier this month. Hardly a coincidence…

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #76 on: 04/23/2021 04:08 pm »
As mentioned in the previous post, the launch of the first two 14F151 satellites now seems to be planned for no earlier than 2024, more than twelve years after the Sfera project was approved. This could be determined from a schedule for tests of satellite components published on the website of a center belonging to Novosibirsk State University.
http://www.phys.nsu.ru/ntc_kp/proekty/
The list (containing both NPO Lavochkin and ISS Reshetnev satellites) included four military ISS Reshetnev satellites, namely 14F151 nr. 11 and 12, one 14F158 and one 14F159 satellite (the latter two being Repei signals intelligence satellites).  Interestingly, these four satellites vanished from the list several days after I referenced the website in an article on Russian signals intelligence satellites published on The Space Review earlier this month. Hardly a coincidence…

Copy of the page here:-
https://web.archive.org/web/20210406214937/http://www.phys.nsu.ru/ntc_kp/proekty/

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #77 on: 04/23/2021 09:46 pm »
As mentioned in the previous post, the launch of the first two 14F151 satellites now seems to be planned for no earlier than 2024, more than twelve years after the Sfera project was approved. This could be determined from a schedule for tests of satellite components published on the website of a center belonging to Novosibirsk State University.
http://www.phys.nsu.ru/ntc_kp/proekty/
The list (containing both NPO Lavochkin and ISS Reshetnev satellites) included four military ISS Reshetnev satellites, namely 14F151 nr. 11 and 12, one 14F158 and one 14F159 satellite (the latter two being Repei signals intelligence satellites).  Interestingly, these four satellites vanished from the list several days after I referenced the website in an article on Russian signals intelligence satellites published on The Space Review earlier this month. Hardly a coincidence…

Copy of the page here:-
https://web.archive.org/web/20210406214937/http://www.phys.nsu.ru/ntc_kp/proekty/

The "uncensored" list is attached to Reply 74.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #78 on: 05/13/2021 12:56 pm »
ISS Reshetnev is working on a satellite called Yenisei-2 that was likely ordered by the Ministry of Defense. The name of this satellite appears in a brief biography of an ISS Reshetnev specialist along with a number of other military satellites (Sfera, Repei, Gerakl, Ispolin):

http://www.rusea.info/eoaywinners/11992

To the best of my knowledge, the only other information on this satellite can be found on Russia’s government procurement website, where it is the subject of some thirty contracts signed by the Radio Scientific Research Institute (NII Radio or NIIR), which is responsible for developing the satellite’s payload (or at least part of it). NIIR was awarded two separate contracts for the project by ISS Reshetnev on February 1, 2014 (nr. 018/14-026 and 019/14-026), as is apparent from documentation published here:

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31401813297
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=32110102781

None of the documents reveal when ISS Reshetnev itself was assigned to the project and who the customer is (Roskosmos or the Ministry of Defense). However, the dearth of information on the project as well as some of the wording used in the contracts strongly point to a military role for Yenisei-2. The name Yenisei-2 itself appears in only a handful of the contracts (only draft versions of which are available on the website). Most of them can be linked to Yenisei-2 only through the two contract numbers. Also seen in some of the contracts is ISS Reshetnev’s internal code name for Yenisei-2, namely “Project 763”. This also appears in an ISS Reshetnev contract for the delivery of nickel-iron alloys needed for the project:

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31705326139

Most of the work subcontracted by NIIR goes back to 2014-2015, but several new contracts showed up in recent months (the most recent one last March), showing this is still an active project. Many of the older contracts were signed between NIIR and the Izhevsk Radio Factory (IRZ) and contain this line: “For the manufacturing and mechanical tests [of the component], use is to be made of stocks, technical documentation and equipment produced in the framework of the Olimp project”.  The least this indicates is that the payloads of Yenisei-2 and Olimp share common elements, but this does not necessarily mean that the satellites are used for the same purpose. One of the contracts mentioning the connection with Olimp is here:

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31401640852

NIIR also has a role in Olimp itself, as is clear from documentation published here:

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31200048159
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31401189460


It can be determined from the documentation that Yenisei-2 is a geostationary satellite with a 15-year design lifetime which will carry one or more L-band transponders. IRZ provides a component for the L-band payload called MAGD-O used “for the reception and processing of signals”. It consists of several so-called “de-modulation units”, each of which can receive two L-band signals in the 1.5-2.5 GHz frequency range. MAGD-O is installed in “an unpressurized section” of the satellite and is designed to withstand exhaust plumes from stationary plasma thrusters (the Russian term for Hall-effect ion thrusters). Other elements of the L-band payload are supplied by the Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics. See:

https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31401641010
https://zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/purchase/info/common-info.html?regNumber=31401812055


The name of the satellite suggests a link with another ISS Reshetnev project called Yenisei-A1.  However, this was managed not by the Ministry of Defense, but by Roskosmos under a contract awarded to ISS Reshetnev in September 2012.  Yenisei-A1 was described in tender documentation as an experimental system that would use a modified Express-4000 platform to test new satellite communications technology and would have to pave the way for the deployment of a so-called Confidential Mobile Communication Satellite System (SSKMS). SSKMS was to consist of satellites in both geostationary and highly elliptical orbits (the latter also referred to as Ellips).  However, little or nothing has been heard of the project in the past three or four years and it has possibly been canceled.

It is possible that Yenisei-2 is the military equivalent of this project. This would be supported by the fact that the L-band is typically used by mobile satellite communications systems (such as Inmarsat), but the L-band transponder(s) could be just one of several payloads carried by Yenisei-2.  It should be noted that work on a mobile satellite communications system was also conducted by RKK Energiya in the 2013-2015 timeframe (as is known from some of the company’ annual reports). There is reason to believe that this was a project known as Romashka (14F154), ordered by the Ministry of Defense in August 2012, but canceled for unknown reasons in December 2015. If Yenisei-2 and Romashka were conceived for similar purposes, then the question naturally arises what the military’s rationale would have been for developing two separate mobile satellite communications systems.

It is hard to predict when Yenisei-2 will be ready for launch. It is just one of numerous military satellites that will probably need to be launched from Plesetsk by the Angara-A5, others being Sfera-S/V, Repei-S/V, Gerakl, Ispolin and the geostationary EKS early warning satellites. Considering the slow pace of Angara-A5 production and potential problems with the development of the satellite itself, it may be several more years before Yenisei-2 is launched into space.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #79 on: 07/01/2023 04:00 pm »
Western sanctions appear to be having a significant impact on a number of military satellites being built by ISS Reshetnev. Last January, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reported delays in three projects, namely Sfera, Repei and Gerakl-KV.

The press release of the Main Intelligence Directorate (in Ukrainian) is here:
https://gur.gov.ua/content/kosmichna-rozvidka-rf-kolapsuie-pid-vplyvom-mizhnarodnykh-sanktsii.html
The news was subsequently reported by several Ukrainian news outlets, including this one in English:
https://en.defence-ua.com/news/sanctions_are_working_russia_cannot_produce_satellites_for_space_recon-5537.html

The reported delays are:
Sfera: from 2025 to 2027
Repei: from 2022 to 2024
Gerakl-KV: from 2023 to 2025

According to the report, the production of these satellites has essentially come to a halt because they are missing “hundreds of thousands” of electronic parts, not only foreign ones, but also Russian-built parts intended to replace them. The report seems to link the delays to  sanctions imposed on ISS Reshetnev by the US State Department last September. While these may have contributed to the latest delays, all three projects had already suffered major postponements earlier.

Sfera (started in 2011) is a constellation of military communications satellites that will operate in both highly elliptical (Sfera-V) and geostationary orbits (Sfera-S). They will constitute Russia’s third-generation military comsat system (ESSS-3), which should replace ESSS-2, consisting of the Meridian-M and Globus-1M satellites.                     

Repei (started in 2014) is a constellation of signals intelligence satellite that will also fly in HEO and GEO (Repei-V and Repei-S).  Indications are that they are the first Russian SIGINT satellites to be devoted primarily to communications intelligence.

Gerakl-KV (also started in 2014) is the least well documented of these three projects. The report describes it as a data relay satellite, which confirms earlier speculation that it is a replacement for the Garpun data relay satellites, used to relay imagery from optical reconnaissance satellites. Only one of the two Garpun satellites launched remains operational (Kosmos-2513). It has been in orbit since 2015 and may well have exceeded its design lifetime.
 
It is, of course, impossible to say how Ukrainian intelligence obtained the information on the delays and how reliable it is. Anyway, the fact that these projects are experiencing significant delays is also evident from several court cases between the Ministry of Defense and ISS Reshetnev. For instance, a recent court document related to Gerakl-KV says ISS Reshetnev did not receive updated technical specifications from the Ministry of Defense for one part of the project until March 2023, more than three years later than planned.
https://kad.arbitr.ru/Card/c4c6741b-3b31-4fc7-be53-18e113512c87
Whether that delay is sanction-related is hard to say though.

Also feeling the impact of the sanctions are ISS Reshetnev’s low-orbiting Rodnik (Strela-3M) military communications satellites. Most of these have been launched in trios by the Rokot launch vehicle, the latest triplet having gone up in November 2018. Western sanctions stemming from the 2014 annexation of Ukraine made it necessary to build the next batch of satellites with as few foreign electronic components as possible. It was also decided to replace Rokot (which has many Ukrainian-built components) by Angara-1.2.

A contract for the modernized satellites was awarded to ISS Reshetnev in November 2015 under the name Klyuch (“key”).  Most, if not all of the changes relate to the communications payload, known as 14R59.  They are significant enough for the satellites to get a new military index (14F161), seen for the first time in a recent court document (the earlier Rodniks had the index 14F132).
https://kad.arbitr.ru/Card/5387f141-477b-44a6-8541-f367daa65999

According to the document, the first satellite (serial number 29) was supposed to be manufactured by late October 2019, but technical specifications for the modernized 14R59 payload were not finished until May 2019, leading to significant delays in the production of the spacecraft. It is not clear when it will be ready for launch.



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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #80 on: 07/02/2023 03:12 am »
Really?  Are these Ukrainian "sources" the same people how routinely tell us Russia is running out of missiles ;D or who say the Russians are stealing Ukrainian washing machines to strip out the chips for their fighter jets?    ;D ;D ;D.

Too many stupid lies are being told about Russia these days as part of the war propaganda effort, which to be entirely honest, has been in play for 20 years now in one form or another. I'm inclined to disbelieve such claims unless real evidence comes to light.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #81 on: 07/02/2023 10:13 am »
Really?  Are these Ukrainian "sources" the same people how routinely tell us Russia is running out of missiles ;D or who say the Russians are stealing Ukrainian washing machines to strip out the chips for their fighter jets?    ;D ;D ;D.

Too many stupid lies are being told about Russia these days as part of the war propaganda effort, which to be entirely honest, has been in play for 20 years now in one form or another. I'm inclined to disbelieve such claims unless real evidence comes to light.
You should not dismiss the whole thing as propaganda or a joke.
The fact is that the entire satellite program is delayed by many years.
Many satellites have been in the lists of planned launches for 10 years and are postponed again and again.
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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #82 on: 07/02/2023 11:33 am »
As I pointed out in that post, there is no way of knowing how Ukrainian intelligence obtained the information on those specific delays and if that information is reliable. However, it is a fact that these and many other Russian space projects are experiencing significant delays, many of which are attributable to the sanctions. This is corroborated by numerous Russian sources, including the court documents that I regularly quote here. And it was former Roscosmos chief Dmitriy Rogozin himself who admitted during parliamentary hearings in 2021 that the sanctions were having a big impact on the production of satellites, saying "we have plenty of rockets, but nothing to place into orbit".

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #83 on: 07/02/2023 04:01 pm »
Many Russian space programs used to experience delays even before the sanctions (pre 2014 era).

I would say that many of the delays would be more due to the natural Russian incompetency, laziness and sometimes corrupt space boses rather than the sanctions.

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Re: Reshetnev Satellites
« Reply #84 on: 07/02/2023 04:16 pm »
But even with these huge delays I believe that these sanctions would have a positive impact on the Russian space industry in the long run, as it would force the people in the space industry and their boses to finally get up from their beauty sleep which they had been enjoying for the last 25 years and finally start working and manufacturing components themselves instead of remaining dependent on others.

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