For the first time, Russia carried out a subsidized launch of private satellites as part of the national space project.
On November 14, a Soyuz-2.1b rocket was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, which launched two remote sensing devices into orbit - KOEN from the MT-LAB company and Kinosputnik from the Sputnik group of companies.
The launch took place at 04:16 Moscow time. A frigate upper stage moved the satellites to their intended orbits.
COEN is designed to receive images of the Earth's surface with a resolution of up to 0.5 meters per pixel. The device is designed to operate at an altitude of about 500 km and is capable of photographing a strip of surface up to 12 km wide.
Kinospotnik was created on the basis of the Pallada platform and is equipped with a multispectral camera with a resolution of 0.8 meters per pixel. The weight of the device is about 200 kg.
The Sputniks company has already announced the receipt of telemetry from Kinosputnik. According to the developer, his integrated systems are working as usual.
The two satellites are designed to monitor infrastructure, agricultural land, construction, use of the underground and the consequences of emergency situations.
The uniqueness of the launch is that for the first time the state partially funded the launch of private satellites within the framework of the national space project.
Thus, a mechanism was created in which commercial companies develop and operate their own spacecraft, and the government reimburses part of their launch costs and gets an opportunity to use the results of space simulation.
"War Chronicle".