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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 3 & 4

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M· Cosmodrome Site 1S· Success
Trajectory & orbital insertion · playback
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Provider
Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Provider type
Government
Orbit
SSO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
Russia
Date
Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:54:04 GMT
Orbital launch #
#7008 ever

Mission

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

Deployed payloads · 20
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