Yakhta (satellite bus)

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The Yakhta (Russian: Яхта, literally Yacht) is a satellite bus designed and manufactured by Khrunichev. It is a small unpressurized bus low Earth Orbit to medium Earth orbit to GEO. It has four different generations and its different versions have been used from civilian communications to satellite navigation.^[1]