Kanopus-V 3 & 4

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Description:

• KANOPUS-V 3 and V 4 are intended for monitoring natural and man-made disasters, such as forest fires and environmental contamination. They can also be used for monitoring agricultural activities, water resources and land use, cartography and other observations in the interests of ministries and agencies of the Russian Federation.

Mission details:

• The third orbital launch from Russia′s Vostochniy spaceport was a success, following the failure of a Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat launch in November. This time the rocket was a Soyuz-2-1A/Fregat.
  The Soyuz third stage was suborbital; the Fregat made two burns to a circular 505 km orbit and deployed two imaging satellites in the Russian government′s Kanopus-V series. After two more Fregat burns to a 580 km orbit, 9 small satellites were deployed: four 8 kg, 24-cm S-NET satellites for the Technical University of Berlin, four 3U cubesats for Spire Global, and a re-flight of the D-Star One communications cubesat design for German Orbital Systems, whose first D-Star One was lost in the failure of the previous Vostochniy launch.

External links:

• Satellite tracking: Real time satellite tracking
• Satellite tracking: Real time satellite tracking