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Originally Posted by Larry Jacks
Back in the mid 1980s, the Soviet Union alone was flying something like 60 space launches each year. Part of the reason was their satellites didn't last very long. Add in the US and rest of world launches and it was a pretty interesting time.
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"Didn't last very long" might be taken as indicating that they were unreliable. However their their Votok derived Zenit film return reconnaissance satellites had were designed to have short operational lives and returned their films after 1-2 weeks. More than 500 were launched between 1961 and 1994.
Jon