Legenda (satellite system)

Legenda, or the MKRC Legenda system, is a Soviet satellite targeting system mated to the SS-N-19 missile. It consisted of the US-P SIGINT satellites and the US-A Radar Ocean reconnaissance satellites, which were nuclear powered.[1] Legenda system consist of 37 ELINT satellite named US-P [2] and 32 US-A nuclear powered radar satellite [3] to provide global coverage Legenda is now non-functional after the US-A and US-P sats were deactivated. It is being replaced by the Liana system with 4 operational satellites as of July 2021.[4]

Geodesy
Fundamentals
Concepts
Technologies
Standards (history)
NGVD 29 Sea Level Datum 1929
OSGB36 Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936
SK-42 Systema Koordinat 1942 goda
ED50 European Datum 1950
SAD69 South American Datum 1969
GRS 80 Geodetic Reference System 1980
ISO 6709 Geographic point coord. 1983
NAD 83 North American Datum 1983
WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984
NAVD 88 N. American Vertical Datum 1988
ETRS89 European Terrestrial Ref. Sys. 1989
GCJ-02 Chinese obfuscated datum 2002
Geo URI Internet link to a point 2010

See also

References
  1. Brian Harvey The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program: 50 Years After 2007 "The US P ("P" for "passive"; industry code of 11F120) program began with Cosmos 699 in 1974, becoming operational as the Legenda system in 1978. US P5 are built by the Arsenal Design Bureau in St. Petersburg. Thirty-six were launched ..
  2. "US-P".
  3. "US-A".
  4. Podvig, Pavel (25 October 2018). "Cosmos-2528 - new Lotus-S1 electronic reconnaissance satellite". Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces.


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