The first satellite, identified as Kosmos 2441, was launched into a 750 km Sun-synchronous orbit on 26 July 2008, atop a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from LC-43/4 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

[2] A second satellite, Kosmos 2486, was launched on 7 June 2013[3] and after some initial technical problems, it was apparently operational in Summer 2014.

Project delays and cost overruns led Russia's two other leading spacecraft developers, NPO Lavochkin and RKK Energia, to propose the launch of a third Araks satellite as a stop-gap measure.

In February 2009, Rossiskaya Gazeta reported that the first Persona satellite had failed due to issues with onboard electronics.

Other theories for the failures include an improperly chosen orbit that place the spacecraft too close to Earth's radiation belt or that imported, low-cost electronics led to a critical failure in aviation components.