Russian Military Satellites: News & Development

Production of ground infrastructure for Arktika-KN satellites has begun



The active life of the devices will be 8 years

MOSCOW, February 15. /TASS/. Barl has started manufacturing ground-based infrastructure for the Arktika-KN space group. This was announced by the General designer of JSC "RPC "barl" Valery Labutin.

"We have started manufacturing the ground infrastructure [of the Arktika-KN group], and we have started manufacturing the load for this spacecraft," Labutin said at a round table of the Federation Council Committee on economic policy on the prospects for commercial space programs.

As specified in Labutin's presentation, the resolution of the satellites of the grouping will be 40 meters in the visible range and 60 meters in the IR range. The active life of the devices will be 8 years.

"AIS equipment will also be installed on the spacecraft, which will allow receiving information about the routes of vessels," the presentation says.

In October 2020, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, during a speech at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, spoke about plans to create a grouping of Arctic-KN satellites to monitor the waters of the Northern sea route. According to him, it will be able to receive information in various ranges and can be created as part of a public-private partnership.

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MOSCOW, September 9. / TASS /. The Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle, launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, successfully launched the spacecraft of the Russian Ministry of Defense into orbit, the information and mass communications department of the military department told reporters.

"Launched today, September 9, at 22.59 Moscow time from the state test cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk region, the Soyuz-2.1v light-class launch vehicle at the appointed time successfully launched a spacecraft into the calculated orbit in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense."

The Razbeg n°1 satellite is a small-sized military optical reconnaissance satellite. The payload was built by the Russian corporation NPP VNIIEM. Onboard the satellite is a camera which was built OAO Peleng, a company from Belarus. This camera has a maximum ground resolution of 0.9 meters while operating in the panchromatic mode.

"The spacecraft launched in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense on September 9 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome was launched into the target orbit at the estimated time and accepted for control of ground assets of the G.S. Titov Main Testing Space Center of the Aerospace Forces," the Defense Ministry said.
"A stable telemetric connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, its onboard systems are operating normally," they added.