Two Earth remote sensing satellites, Aist-2T No. 1 and No. 2, have arrived at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region. They were delivered by an Il-76 cargo plane, which landed on the runway of the cosmodrome's airport complex. After unloading, the containers with the spacecraft and related equipment were transported to the assembly and test facility (MIK) of the technical complex, where pre-launch preparations will begin.
The launch of the satellites is scheduled for December 2025 as part of a comprehensive mission to create a domestic constellation of spacecraft for stereophotogrammetric surveying of the Earth.
The Aist-2T satellites were developed as part of the "Samara University" program with the participation of JSC "NPO "ISS" named after Academician M.F. Reshetnev" and are designed to obtain high-precision stereo images of the Earth's surface with a resolution of up to 2.5 m. The spacecraft are equipped with a three-camera imaging system that allows the formation of digital terrain models and cartographic products at scales up to 1:10,000. An orbital constellation of two satellites will reduce the revisit period to 2–3 days.
