Status
Ionosfera-M n°3, 4
Launch Time
NET Jun 17, 2025
NET Jun 17, 2025
Rocket
Mission Details
Ionosfera-M n°3 & 4
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
Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 400.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia
Stats
2025
63rd orbital launch attempt
Soyuz 2.1b
95th mission
2nd mission of 2025