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The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.
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
Height 46.30 Meters
Max Stages 4
Mass To GTO 3250 kg
Liftoff Thrust 4150 kN
Diameter 10.30 Meters
Mass To LEO 8200 kg
Liftoff Mass 313 Tonnes
Launch Success 29
Consecutive Success 29
Maiden Flight 2008-07-26
Launch Failures 0
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-04-25T12:13:12+0000
NET November 5.
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2024-04-08T02:26:26+0000
No longer scheduled for May 21.
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2024-02-10T20:02:23+0000
NET May 21.
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2023-11-15T12:07:59+0000
NET May 2024.
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2023-11-15T05:16:37+0000
NET early 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-01T10:14:16+0000
New launch time.
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2023-09-23T06:38:28+0000
Added launch time.
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2023-09-19T09:29:07+0000
Added launch for NET December 5, 2023.