Kanopus-V 3-4 & Rideshares

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

02:07:00

Thursday February 1, 2018

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Kanopus-V 3 & 4

Kanopus-V (Kanopus-Vulkan) is a compact Russian remote sensing satellite designed to provide operational weather information for various tasks, including monitoring man-made and natural emergencies, mapping, detecting forest fires and environmental pollutants, registering abnormal physical phenomena for earthquake prediction, and monitoring agriculture, water, coastal resources, and land use. Developed by NPO VNII Elektromekhaniki, with avionics subcontracted to SSTL and the imager built by OAO Peleng, Kanopus-V serves the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

2 Payloads

946 kilograms

Rideshare Mission

Rideshare mission, the payloads on board are: S-Net A (Tubsat 13) S-Net B (Tubsat 14) S-Net C (Tubsat 15) S-Net D (Tubsat 16) Lemur-2 74 (Lemur-2 Kadi) Lemur-2 75 (Lemur-2 TheNickMolo) Lemur-2 76 (Lemur-2 Jin-Luen) Lemur-2 77 (Lemur-2 UramChanSol) D-Star ONE v.1.1 Phoenix

52 Payloads

9 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M

Active Since 2006

RKK Energiya logo

Manufacturer

RKK Energiya

Price

$23.00 million

Rocket

Height: 46.94m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 7,020 kg

GTO: 2,810 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,550 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.11m

Height: 10.2m

Stages

4

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Site 1S

Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia

Fastest Turnaround

24 days 22 hours

Stats

Soyuz 2.1a


33rd

Mission

1st

Mission of 2018

2018


14th

Orbital launch attempt