On 23 March 2023 at 0640 GMT a Soyuz 2-1a rocket successfully launched what is believed to be the Bars-M 4 military electro-optical area surveillance stereoscopic cartography satellite, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. The last BARS-M satellite (Cosmos 2556 aka Bars-M 3) was also launched on a Soyuz 2-1a on 19 May 2022. The Bars-M 4 satellite will get a military codename to become Cosmos 2567 (Kosmos 2467). The Bars-M satellites feature an electro-optical camera system called Karat, built by the Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association (LOMO) and a dual laser altimeter instrument to deliver topographic imagery, stereo images, altimeter data and high-resolution images.
Russian Aerospace Forces
