Launch of the first Arktika-M satellite at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
Launch of the first Arktika-M satellite at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia launched the first weather satellite in the Arktika-M series, designed to monitor climatic and environmental conditions on … 02/28/2021, Sputnik World
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The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the satellite rose at 6:55 GMT from the launch pad 31 of the Baikonur space base in the territory of Kazakhstan. The launch, the third of a total of 29 slated for 2021, was broadcast live via the Roscosmos company website. At 7:04 GMT, the Fregat accelerator with the satellite on board was separated from the third stage of the rocket to enter a suborbital trajectory. At 9:14 GMT, the Arktika-M is to separate from the Fregat to place itself in a highly elliptical orbit with an apogee of about 39,728 km and a perigee of 1,050 km. At seven years, it was designed by the Lavochkin company . It has two multizone scanners to obtain images of the Earth in visible and infrared light, a device for monitoring solar flares and the radiological situation in near-Earth space, as well as equipment for relaying meteorological information and system distress beacon signals. Cospas-Sarsat maritime search and rescue: the launch of the second satellite in the Arktika-M series is scheduled for 2023, followed by three other devices in 2024 and 2025. Beyond this date, Russia plans to send five Arktika satellites -MP of new generation.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia has launched the first weather satellite of the Arktika-M series, designed to monitor climatic and environmental conditions in the northern polar areas.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the satellite rose at 6:55 GMT from launch pad 31 of the Baikonur space base in the territory of Kazakhstan. The launch, the third of a total of 29 slated for 2021, was broadcast live on the Roscosmos company website.
At 7:04 am GMT, the Fregat accelerator with the satellite on board separated from the third stage of the rocket to enter a suborbital path. At 9:14 am GMT, the Arktika-M is expected to separate from the Fregat and place itself in a highly elliptical orbit with an apogee of around 39,728 km and a perigee of 1,050 km.
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The satellite, which weighs about 2,200 kilograms and has a lifespan of seven years, was designed by the Lavochkin company. It has two multizone scanners for imagine the Earth in visible and infrared light, a device for monitoring solar flares and the radiological situation in near-Earth space, as well as equipment for retransmission of meteorological information and signals from the distress radiobeacons of the Cospas-Sarsat maritime search and rescue system.
The launch of the second satellite in the Arktika-M series is scheduled for 2023, followed by three other devices in 2024 and 2025. Beyond that date, Russia plans to send five new Arktika-MP satellites into space. generation.
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