Resurs-P No.1

Resurs-P No.1 was a Russian commercial Earth observation satellite able to take high resolution imagery, with a resolution of up to one metre. It was the first of the Resurs-P series, operated by Roscosmos as a replacement for the Resurs-DK No.1 satellite. It was designed for multispectral remote sensing of the Earth's surface, giving high quality visible images in near real time and delivering data to a wide range of users by radio link. In January 2022 the general director of the Progress Rocket Space Centre, Dimitriy Baranov, announced that it had been decommissioned in December 2021 because of a failure of onboard equipment. Between 26 and 27 June 2024 it released a number of fragments, and United States Space Command later confirmed that it had broken up into more than 100 pieces of trackable debris; the crew of the International Space Station sheltered on their docked spacecraft for an hour as a precaution. The satellite decayed from orbit on 18 November 2024. The Resurs-P spacecraft was built by TsSKB Progress in Samara.