Kanopus-V No.5 & 6

Russia

Spacecraft nº:

Russian spacecraft nº:

Kanopus-V= Kanopus-Vulkan

Launch data:

Designation	Kanopus-V 5	Kanopus-V 6
NORAD-ID	43876	43877
Int. code	18111A	18111B
Launch date	27 Dec 2018 - 02:07 UT
Launch site	Vostochniy, LC-1S
Launch vehicle	Soyuz-2-1a Fregat-M
Mission	Imaging, Remote sensing
Earth orbit:
Perigee / Apogee	504 x 511 km	499 x 511 km
Eccentricity
Inclination	97.5°	97.5°
Period	min	min
Decay

Launched together with: GRUS 1 - Flock-3k 1/12 - Lemur-2 88/95 - D-Star ONE iSat - D-Star ONE Sparrow - ZACUBE 2 - Lume 1 - UWE 4

Spacecraft data:

Prime manufacturer	NPP VNIIEM
Platform	Kanopus bus
Operator	Roscosmos
Mass at launch	473 kg (each)
Dry Mass	kg
Basic shape
Dimension (m)
Equipment	PSS, MSS, MSU-200
Solar array	2 deployable fixed solar arrays
Stabilization
Propulsion
DC power
Design lifetime	5 yrs

Mission details:

Roskosmos flew a Soyuz-2-1A/Fregat from Vostochniy on Dec 27, 2018 placing the 473-kg Kanopus-V 5 and 6 imaging payloads in orbit along with the 80-kg GRUS imager from Japanese weather company AXELSPACE and a cluster of cubesats:
- Eight Lemur-2 AIS/ADS-B/GNSS-RO payloads from Spire Global;
- 16 Flock-3k Dove imaging payloads from Planet;
- ZACUBE-2 from CPUT-FSATI, Cape Town, S Africa;
- UWE-4 from the University of Wurzburg, Germany;
- Lume-1 from the University of Vigo, Spain;
- D-Star ONE Sparrow from German Orbital Systems, Berlin;
- iSat, another GOS/Berlin D-Star ONE to be delivered on orbit to iSky Tech of Prague.

External links:

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Ref.: #7(JR759), #14 - update: 03.03.19