Canopus-V-IK
| Canopus-V-IK | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Earth observation satellite |
| Country: |
 Russia
|
| Operator: | Roscosmos |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2017-042A |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 473 kg |
| Begin: | July 14, 2017 at 6:36:49 UTC |
| Starting place: | Baikonur , 31/6 |
| Launcher: | Soyuz 2.1a / Fregat |
| Status: | in orbit |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 94.8 min |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.4 ° |
| Apogee height : | 515 km |
| Perigee height : | 514 km |
Kanopus-V-IK (Kanopus-Vulkan-Infra-Krasny) is an earth observation satellite of the Russian space agency Roskosmos .
It was launched into sun-synchronous orbit from the Baikonur rocket launch site on July 14, 2017 at 6:36:49 UTC with a Soyuz 2.1a launcher with a Fregat upper stage . Together with Kanopus-V-IK, 72 other satellites from Germany, Japan, Russia, Norway, Canada and the USA were brought into space , including the Flying Laptop (120 kg, technology demonstration mission for earth observation and ship tracking), WNISAT-1R (43 kg, weather satellite for shipping), TechnoSat (18 kg) and the 30 kg, NORSat-1 (30 kg, ship identification) and NORSAT-2 (17 kg) and 67 Cubesats with a total weight of 364 kg, seven of them 6-unit cubesats, 59 3-unit cubesats (including 48 Flock-2k Dove Sats from Planetlabs) and a 1-unit cubesat. The maneuvers following the take-off took an unusually long time of almost 8 hours because of the different orbits on which all these satellites had to be set down. The satellite was originally supposed to be launched in 2013, but the launch was delayed because an additional infrared camera was integrated.
The three-axis stabilized Kanopus-V-IK is equipped with several cameras and is primarily intended to detect forest fires in large areas of Russia. The cameras are: PSS ( panchromatic , resolution of 2 m in the wavelength range 0.54–0.86 µm with a swath width of 23 km), MSS ( multispectral camera with four bands in the wavelength range 0.46–0.84 µm with a resolution of 10 m and a swath width of 23 km) and MSU-IK-SR (Multispectral Scanner Unit-IK-SR, with two bands in the wavelength range 3.5–4.5 µm and 8.4–9.4 µm with a resolution of 200 m and a swath width of 2000 km). The satellite was built on the basis of the Kanopus satellite bus from NPO VNII Elektromehaniki, with the avionics being supplied by Surrey Satellite Technology and has a planned service life of five years.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ path data according Kanopus V IK. N2YO, August 27, 2017, accessed on August 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Long launch mission with 73 satellites
- ↑ nasaspaceflight.com: Soyuz 2-1A launches with Kanopus-V-IK and over 70 satellites
- ↑ eoPortal: Kanopus-V-IK 1 (Kanopus-Vulkan-Infra-Krasny-1)