Kanopus-V 1

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Launch data: Designation  38707 / 12039A Launch date  22 July 2012 - 06:41 UT Launch site  Baik, LC-31/6 Launch vehicle  Soyuz-FG / Fregat Mission  Government: Remote sensing, Imaging LEO Sun-synchronous Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  501 x 509 km Eccentricity  5,82E-04 Inclination  97.49 deg Period  94.72 min

Spacecraft data: Prime manufacturer  All-Russia Research Institute of Electromechanics (NPP VNIIEM) Platform   Operator  Scientific Production Corporation (joint stock creation of Russian Space Agency) Mass at launch  400 kg Dry Mass  110 kg Basic shape   Dimension (m)   Equipment  PSS, MSS, MSU-200 Solar array  2 deployable fixed solar arrays Stabilization   Propulsion   DC power  300 W Design lifetime  5 yrs

Credit: VNIIEM

Assembly of the space head unit has been completed.

Description:

• Kanopus-V (Kanopus-Vulkan) is a small Russian remote sensing satellite.
• Provision of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Russian Academy of Sciences operational weather information for the following major tasks:
  • Monitoring of man-made and natural emergencies, including natural weather phenomena;
  • Mapping;
  • Detect pockets of forest fires and emissions of major pollutants in the environment;
  • Registration abnormal physical phenomena for earthquake prediction;
  • Monitoring of agriculture, water and coastal resources
  • Land use;
• Kanopus-V feaures three prototype instruments:
  • PSS (Panchromatic Imaging System):
  • PSS is an instrument to provide panchromatic imagery for environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry. It provides high resolution imagery of 2.5 m on a swath of 20 km. The spectral range is 0.5-0.8 µm.
  • MSS (Multispectral Imaging System):
  • MSS is an instrument to provide multispectral imagery of land and coastal surfaces and ice cover. It provides a spatial resolution of 12 m on a swath of 20 km. Four spectral bands are provided: 0.5-0.6 µm; 0.6-0.7 µm; 0.7-0.8 µm; 0.8-0.9 µm.
  • MSU-200 (Multispectral Scanner Unit):
  • MSU-200 is an instrument to provide imagery of land and sea surfaces and ice cover. The spatial resolution is 25 m on a swath of 250 km. The spectral coverage is 0.54-0.86 µm.
• Will provide users with operational hydro-meteorological information.

Mission details:

• Launch delayed from March 19, April 16, May 07, August and Sept 2011, March 2012.
• On Jul 22, 2012 Roskosmos launched a Soyuz-FG/Fregat into polar orbit with a cluster of small satellites.
• Kanopus-Vulkan-1 is a Earth imaging satellite built by VNII Elektromekhaniki, for Roskosmos. The satellite carry 2-meter-resolution cameras.