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Roscosmos Ionosfera-M n°1, 2 & Others (sh.itjust.works)
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-04 23:18 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-05 08:18 (YAKT) | | Launch site | Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia | | Launch vehicle | Soyuz 2.1b / Fregat-M | | Launch provider | Roscosmos | | Payload | Ionosfera-M n°1 & 2 | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and deployment of Ionosphera satelites into Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

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☑️ 4th Soyuz 2.1b launch this year, 91st overall

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Ionosfera-M n°1 & 2

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
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Fairing separation, Stage 2 shutdown, stage separation, Stage 3 ignition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Side booster separation and Korolev Cross.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Liftoff!