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Title: Persona - what's in a name?
Post by: Phillip Clark on 01/21/2014 11:51 am

I have just noticed on Anatoli Zak's review of the Persona satellite programme (http://www.russianspaceweb.com/persona.html) that he comments that the satellite is also known as Kvarts.

I wonder whether Persona is the equivalent to a Yantar "family" designator and Kvarts relates to the specific satellite type - like Kobalt-M?   This might make sense, especially since there have been references to Persona-1 and a future Persona-2 variant.

Any thoughts, rebuttals please?

Title: Re: Persona - what's in a name?
Post by: Stan Black on 03/15/2016 08:04 am

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As its main imaging instrument, Resurs-P No. 1 sports a Geoton-L1 telescope developed at OAO Krasnogorsky Zavod with an image storing and conversion system dubbed Sangur-1U developed at NPP Opteks, a branch of TsSKB Progress in Samara. Sangur-1U converts optical images into digital signal, and then processes, compresses and transmits this data to the satellite's radio system for downlink to ground stations.

http://en.federalspace.ru/356/

For the 14Ф137 it is a Sangur-1P?

http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/download/download.html?id=15086553
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/download/download.html?id=15086920
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/223/purchase/public/download/download.html?id=15087261

Title: Re: Persona - what's in a name?
Post by: Danderman on 03/15/2016 04:38 pm

Here is a document claiming that Persona is based on the Resurs-UKP platform, whatever that is.

Title: Re: Persona - what's in a name?
Post by: Stan Black on 03/15/2016 04:47 pm

Quote from: Danderman on 03/15/2016 04:38 pm

Here is a document claiming that Persona is based on the Resurs-UKP platform, whatever that is.

Confusingly Resurs-UKP is also used by VNIIEM.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=5966.msg1097043#msg1097043

Title: Re: Persona - what's in a name?
Post by: Phillip Clark on 03/15/2016 04:56 pm

In the illustration posted by Danderman, Cosmos 2506 is referred to as "Persona-3".   Maybe I am being pedantic here (or it's just the way that the Russians write sequential numbers), but I see Cosmos 2506 as being the third Persona-1/Kvarts satellite to be launched, with Persona-2 thought to be under development and Persona-3 not previously rumoured.

Not heard of the Resurs-UKP platform before: Persona-1 has always looked to be a more massive beastie than the Yantar-derivatives used for the Resurs-P programme.