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03.07.2013
Artist's view of Resource-P satellite in orbit
July 2, 2013 conducted the first test include electro-optical target surveillance equipment (Geoton) installed on the spacecraft (SC) Resource-P, have been surveyed, and the first images of the Earth. According to preliminary estimates of experts, is currently performing the processing and analysis of the information received, the resulting images are broadly consistent with the specified requirements and confirm the high performance characteristics of the spacecraft.
Launching of the remote sensing of the Earth Resource-P was successfully implemented June 25, 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1b. Since then, the check is made on-board systems of the spacecraft. Parameters for the spacecraft (temperature, pressure in the compartments, the supply voltage) are in the normal range. Comments on the work of the on-board equipment is not.
Flight testing of the spacecraft Resource-P progress:
One of the first images obtained from satellite Resource-P. 02.07.2013
Another of the first images obtained from satellite Resource-P. 02.07.2013
Spacecraft Resource-P created SRP TsSKB Progress on the basis of the existing backlog and project developments to improve its performance targets in the following key areas: increasing the number of narrow spectral ranges from 3 to 5, providing hyperspectral and stereo, snap pictures with the provision of accuracy of 10-15 meters, an increase of lifetime spacecraft with 3 to 5 years.
Space complex Resource-P is for high-precision, detailed broadband and hyperspectral optical-electronic monitoring Earth's surface. This spacecraft was the second in a series of satellites of the "resource" in the domestic constellation of civilian remote sensing of the Earth c detailed level permissions.
Resource-P (Resurs-P) is intended to inform the following applications of Earth observation:
- Compiling and updating the general geographic, thematic and topographic maps;
- Control of pollution and environmental degradation;
- Inventory of natural resources and monitor business processes to ensure the rational activity in various sectors of the economy;
- Information management activities for oil exploration, natural gas, ore and other mineral deposits;
- Control of development of territories, to obtain data for engineering evaluation areas for the benefit of economic activity;
- Control of water conservation and protected areas;
- Assess ice conditions;
- Observation of emergencies, disasters, accidents, man-made disasters, as well as assess their implications for planning remediation.
The information obtained can also be used to promote international cooperation in the Russian part of the global Earth observations and solutions of other pressing problems of remote sensing of the Earth.
Other of the first images obtained from satellite Resource-P. 02.07.2013
Resource-P - a device with a qualitatively new features, including the use on it a special target equipment. One of the basic principles of formation of shape space complex (CC) Resource-P is the use of technical solutions which have been accumulated in creating QC Resource-DK. Were retained capabilities of the spacecraft Resource-DK in width of the capture and the level of resolution in panchromatic and spectral ranges. It operates at near-circular sun-synchronous orbit, which can significantly improve the observations on the Resurs-DK, working on an elliptical orbit. The new spacecraft will be able to shoot at the same height and in the same lighting conditions. The frequency of observation is reduced from six to three days. Furthermore, improved consumer properties and precision reference images transmitted to Earth dynamic characteristics of the spacecraft.
Capacity of tactical and technical characteristics of the new spacecraft achieved through the use of several types of imaging equipment. At the Resource-P is set opto-electronic equipment, which will deliver highly detailed images with a resolution of 1 m with a height of 475 km in the panchromatic band, a narrow spectral bands with a resolution of at least 4.3 meters.
Resource-P description (in Russian)
The task of equipment Resource-P introduced two other types of imaging equipment: hyperspectral survey equipment - GSA (development of CMH) and a set of wide field multispectral imaging equipment - KSHMSA (development branch SRP TsSKB Progress - SPE OPTEKS ). Locking band hyperspectral instrument is 25 km and a resolution of about 25 m KSHMSA allows detailed observation with wide with a resolution of 12 m swath of 100 km, with a resolution of 60 m - a swath width of 440 km. Together with panchromatic images allows simultaneous recording at fixed spectral ranges.
The presence of this equipment will increase list and quality of the spacecraft solved problems in the socio-economic development of the country and its regions.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=20195
Images, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / ROSCOSMOS / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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