According to official reports, the instrument would enable the satellite to "see" below the foliage and penetrate soil. } Die Satellit hatte unter anderem die Aufgabe, das Erdmagnetfeld und Mikrometeoriten natürlichen und künstlichen Ursprungs zu messen. Panchromatic images were promised to reach a resolution of 1.54 meters and multispectral images would descern details as small as 4.6 meters. According to Roskosmos, a photograph taken by the satellite in September 2016, captured an eruption of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula. "))>0&&parent.frames.length) { General Director of the Shvabe Holding, the parent company of OAO KMZ, told the official Russian media that the Avrora imager would be from 1.5 to two times more powerful than any foreign system in its class and it would rely on components built in Russia. RS-20 | AIST (Kleinsatellit) (Weitergeleitet von Aisat-2D) AIST (russisch АИСТ für Storch) sind russische Kleinsatelliten, die von einer Gruppe von Studenten, Doktoranden und Wissenschaftlern der Staatlichen Universität für Luft- und Raumfahrt Samara in Zusammenarbeit mit RKZ Progress entwickelt wurden. RS-8 | We use Cookies to ensure users receive the best possible experience viewing our website. AIST-2D weighs 500… if(!x && document.getElementById) x=document.getElementById(n); return x; According to available descriptions, the radar would produce images using passive reception of radio signals from ground-based or space-based sources, or using a reflected signal emitted by another satellite. google_color_text = "333333"; per pixel. The satellite also hosts materials science experiments, a Microacceleration Control System demo, a space-to-space communications terminal and a Mass Spectrometer. The old GIK-2 (2nd State Test Cosmodrome) at Svobodniy was shut down in 2007; its reopening as Vostochniy marks a planned shift away from the Kazakhstan launch site of … Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. It was the first time when such detailed image (spatial resolution of 2 […] RS-17b | The Aist-2D was also reported to carry innovative infrared sensors, which do not require cooling system. The satellites were placed into a  471 km × 485 km orbit with a 97.3° inclination. Click to enlarge. The active development of the satellite started at the beginning of 2013 and continued during 2014. • 145.870 MHz Morse CW beacon transmits “SamSat-218D” every 150 seconds (or 30 seconds) news | Site The instrument covers the visible and infrared wavelengths and can be operated in panchromatic and multispectral modes to deliver imagery of Earth. RS-17a |