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Mon Sep 08 2025
Russian Space Forces

Kosmos 2556 (Bars-M No. 3)

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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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No Recovery Specified

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Rocket Details

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Smart Dragon 3

Description:

Smart Dragon-3 is a solid fuel orbital rocket designed by a subsidiary of the state-owned CASC group built for the commercial market.

Smart Dragon 3 rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Government/Top Secret
  • Bars-M is the second incarnation of the Bars project, which was started in the mid 1990ies to develop a successor for the Komtea class of area surveillance satellites. The original Bars project was halted in the early 2000s. In 2007, TsSKB-Progress was contracted for Bars-M, for which reportedly the Yantar-based service module was replaced by a new developed advanced service module. The Bars-M satellites feature an electro-optical camera system called Karat, which is developed and built by the Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association (LOMO), and a dual laser altimeter instrument to deliver topographic imagery, stereo images, altimeter data and high-resolution images with a ground resolution around 1 meter.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Sea Launch

Pad

Oriental Spaceport mobile launch ship