Launch
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4
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Mission
Ionosfera-M 3 & 4
Earth Science
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond. The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each. The following science instruments are carried on the satellites: * SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer * SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer * GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1 * LAERTES On-board Ionosonde * NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex * ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer * Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer * MayaK On-board radio transmitters * PES GPS-GLONASS device
Status
To Be Determined
Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.
Pad
Location
Asia/Yakutsk
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation
The Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport above the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on 28 April 2016 at 02:01 UTC.
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Rocket
Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M
Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the 21st-century version of the Russian Soyuz rocket. In its basic form, it is a three-stage carrier rocket for placing payloads into low Earth orbit. The first-stage boosters and two core stages feature uprated engines with improved injection systems, compared to the previous versions of the Soyuz. Digital flight control and telemetry systems allow the rocket to be launched from a fixed launch platform, whereas the launch platforms for earlier Soyuz rockets had to be rotated as the rocket could not perform a roll to change its heading in flight.
Family: Soyuz
Variant: Fregat-M
Details
Min stage: 4
Max stage: 4m
Length: 46.3m
Diameter: 10.3
First Flight: July 26, 2008
Total launch count: 31
Successful launches: 31
Pending launches: 4
Consecutive successful launches: 31
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) capacity: 8200kg
Launch cost: US$48500000
Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) capacity: 3250kg
Manufacturer
Progress Rocket Space Center
Commercial
RUS
Progress Rocket Space Centre, formerly known as TsSKB-Progress, is a space science and aerospace research company which is known for manufacturing launch vehicles and satellites. Most notably, Progress Rocket Space Centre is the manufacturer of Soyuz launch vehicles.
1996
CEO: Dmitry Baranov
Agency
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Type: Government
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