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Space track event's research Космический трэк событий: Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR – Russia


Maximum Diameter: 4.10 m (13.5 ft)
Mass: 80,000 kg (180,000 lb)
Associated Launch Vehicle: Energia.
Targeting system: optical, radar, with low-yield laser for final targeting
Armament: 1-megawatt carbon-dioxide laser
The Polyus spacecraft (Russian: Полюс, pole), also known as Polus, Skif-DM, GRAU index 17F19DM, was a prototypeorbital weapons platform designed to destroy SDI satellites with a megawatt carbon-dioxide laser.[1] It had a Functional Cargo Block derived from a TKS spacecraft to control its orbit and it could fire test targets to demonstrate the fire control system.
The Polyus spacecraft was launched 15 May 1987 from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 250 as part of the first flight of the Energiasystem,[2] but failed to reach orbit. ....

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