Orlets was a series of Russian, earlier Soviet, photoreconnaissance satellites derived from the Yantar series and intended to augment it. Ten satellites were launched between 1989 and 2006, eight in the Orlets-1 configuration and two in the larger Orlets-2 configuration. They took optical images and returned them by means of film capsules, Orlets-1 carrying eight capsules and Orlets-2 carrying twenty-two. The lighter Orlets-1 flew on Soyuz-U and Soyuz-U2 carrier rockets, while the heavier Orlets-2 needed the larger Zenit-2 rocket to reach orbit. The line belongs to the same family as Yantar, Resurs and Persona, all of them developed at the Samara design bureau that is today part of the Progress Rocket Space Centre, which lists Orlets among the satellites it produced.
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was a series of Russian, and previously Soviet photoreconnaissance satellites
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photoreconnaissance satellites derived from and intended to augment the Yantar series of spacecraft
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was a series of Russian, and previously Soviet photoreconnaissance satellites
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was a series of Russian, and previously Soviet photoreconnaissance satellites
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