* Astronomy

A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket is scheduled to launch the Persona N2 reconnaissance satellite (Kosmos 2486) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, on the 7th June 2013.

Persona is a class of Russian reconnaissance satellites, derived from the Resurs DK class of remote sensing satellite, itself derived from the Soviet Yantar reconnaissance satellites. The satellites are built by TsSKB-Progress, and the optics by LOMO and the Vavilov State Optical Institute.
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