The Roscosmos State Corporation announced the delivery of the Meteor-M No. 2-3 satellite to the Vostochny Cosmodrome. It is designed to study the Earth's natural resources and monitor the helio-geophysical environment. It is also equipped with equipment from the Kospas-Sarsat search and rescue system.
«Compared to Meteor-M No. 2-2, the new satellite is equipped with an on-board radar complex based on an active phased antenna array and helio-geophysical instruments (a short-wave reflected radiation meter and a radio-frequency mass spectrometer). This will ensure all-weather radar monitoring of the Northern Sea Route and expand the range of controlled helio-geophysical parameters», – reports Roscosmos.
Meteor-M No. 2-3 is scheduled to be launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat booster.