Cosmos-2445 (Yantar-4K2M) is back

[SiberianTiger]

This is related to:
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=61010&postcount=1
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showpost.php?p=61551&postcount=2

On February 23, 2009 approximately at 16:15 UTC (19:15 MSK) a return vehicle of the Russian military satellite Cosmos-2445 landed in Bashkortostan after a 101 days long mission. According to Komsomol'skaya Pravda newspaper, the landing took place in the backup landing zone.

Rough coordinates of the landing spot are:
53°41'N 55°18'E

According to the information on the website of Bizhbulyak village, the following happened:

At first, Dyusyanov locals witnessed an explosion over the Northern outskirt of the village, after which a parachute with a container emerged from the smoke clouds. This object flew in direction of Aitovo village and fell 300 meters short of the Dema river. Remnants of the ship and the braking chute fell on the Western slopes of the hills in the direction of Alekseyevka village. Other whole parts of the space ship and fragments of the parachute hit ground near Alekseyevka village. Several minutes after the landing, helicopters came and a jet plane was spotted in the sky. The specialists who arrived said they were expecting a geophysical equipment to come and that a caution should be execrised towards that equipment. They guarded the container till next morning, and the helicopter stayed all that time. At the next morning, the space container has been hauled onto a special rebuilt KAMAZ truck platform and towed towards Orenburg. It's said that the spaceship was supposed to land either in Orenburg region or in Kazakhstan.

The locals managed to take few photograps of themselves with the object in background before being turned out by the "specialists":

It's clearly identifiable as a Yantar ("Amber") / Kobalt-M film return capsule.

Wishing them nice work while processing all those shots of Australia's nude beaches! :lol:

 

[tl8]

Wishing them nice work while processing all those shots of Australia's nude beaches! :lol:

We have no real nude beaches, but there would be females that have very little on.

 

[Woo482]

no nude beaches ? what kind of country is it ? remind them to fly over France next time I am sure they have load's of them

 

[Star explorer]

no nude beaches ? what kind of country is it ? remind them to fly over France next time I am sure they have load's of them

Don't forget Spain

 

[SiberianTiger]

We have no real nude beaches, but there would be females that have very little on.

What a shame, so much film wasted! :lol: Well, here in Moscow we have at least one and there's a big nude resort in Crimea, seasonally populated by our naturists (however, that's already Ukraine).

 

[SiberianTiger]

Name assigned after launch: Georgetta