# MS-2-8 bus
*bus . products*

Yuzhnoye microsatellite platform reported for Sich-2 and the improved Sich-2-30/Sich-2-1 remote-sensing spacecraft.

## Specifications
- **product status**: retired
- **deployment context**: orbital
- **manufacturer**: yuzhnoye
- **bus**: {"platform_class":"mini"}
- **entity type**: bus
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-26
- **verified by**: community
- **claim status**: unclaimed
- **provider**: yuzhnoye
- **attributes**: {"kind":"bus","product_status":"retired","deployment_context":"orbital","manufacturer":"yuzhnoye","description":"Yuzhnoye microsatellite platform reported for Sich-2 and the improved Sich-2-30/Sich-2-1 remote-sensing spacecraft.","bus":"{\"platform_class\":\"mini\"}"}
- **relevance**: in-scope

## Editorial
MS-2-8 is the Yuzhnoye microsatellite bus for Sich-2 and the related Sich-2-1/Sich-2-30 remote-sensing spacecraft context.[^gunter-sich2][^gunter-sich21][^wiki-sitsch-2-de] Yuzhnoye Design Bureau manufactured the platform for the Sich mission family.[^wiki-sitsch-2-de][^gunter-sich2] The bus is classified as a mini platform using the Sich-2 mass of around 169 kg and the improved Sich-2-1 class context.[^wiki-sitsch-2-de][^gunter-sich2][^gunter-sich21] Its deployment context is orbital Earth observation by microsatellite-class spacecraft.[^wiki-sitsch-2-de][^gunter-sich2]

## Compositional position
- sich-2 (missions) --[mission_buses]--> MS-2-8 bus
- sich-2-30 (missions) --[mission_buses]--> MS-2-8 bus

## Sources
- [gunter-sich2] | Sich 2, Gunter Space Page | https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sich-2.htm | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26
- [gunter-sich21] | Sich 2-1, Gunter Space Page | https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sich-2-1.htm | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26
- [wiki-sitsch-2-de] | Sitsch-2, German Wikipedia | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitsch-2 | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-26

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