Resurs-P 2 & Koronas-Nuklon

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• On Dec 26, 2014 Russia launched another Soyuz-2-1b, this time from Baykonur, carrying the 6392 kg Resurs-P 47KS No. 2 civil imaging spacecraft. The main payload is the Geoton-L1 imager with 0.5m aperture and 38 km swath, 1.0 m panchromatic and 3 to 4m color resolution. Geoton-L1 has 7 passbands and a 216-channel hyperspectral imager. The KShMSA wide field multispectral camera is also part of the Resurs-P primary payload; an AIS ship tracking receiver from OAO RKS and Lomonosov Federal State Univ.'s Nuklon cosmic ray detector are secondary payloads. Nuklon detects cosmic ray nuclei with atomic number 1 to 30 in the 1 to 1000 TeV energy range. Resurs-P went into a 190 x 428 km initial orbit that was raised to its operational height of 330 x 471 km on Dec 29.

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