KANOPUS-VULKAN Spacecraft (future spacecraft). / November 17, 2008 /

The spacecraft is incorporated into the lower level of Global Monitoring System of the Earth’s surface, atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere being established to detect the probability of strong earthquake occurrence.

Tasks to be Fulfilled

• Monitoring of man-made and natural emergencies including natural disasters and hydrometeorological phenomena.


• Mapping.


• Detection of forest fire seats, large environmental pollutant emissions.


• Recording of abnormal phenomena to study the possibility of earthquake prediction.


• Monitoring of agriculture, water and coastal resources.


• Land use.


• Highly operational observation of specified regions of the Earth’s surface.

Main Characteristics

• Target launch date: 2009


• Mass: 350 kg


• Mass of servicing platform: 117 kg


• Orbit: Circular sun-synchronous, H = 675 km, i=98.1º


• Instrument Package
  
  
  • Panchromatic camera of 23km in swath width and 2.1m in resolution;
  
  
  • Multi-spectral camera of 20km in swath width and 10.5m in resolution;
  
  
  • Special-purpose complex for geophysical research;
  
  
  • On-board storage -24 GB;
  
  
  • Data rate – 300Mbitps.


• Launcher: «Rokot» («Strela», „Kosmos-3M„, „Dnepr„)


• Active lifetime: 5 years


• Prime Developer: : Research and Production Enterprise Pan-Russian Research Institute for Electromechanics ( FGUP NPP VNIIEM)

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