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July 22, 2013
Today marks one year since the successful launch of the satellite Canopus-V № 1 and Belarusian spacecraft (BKA) that operate in a single constellation.
Canopus-V 1
SC Canopus-V created by JSC Corporation VNIIEM under the Federal Space Program of Russia for the operational monitoring of man-made and natural disasters.
Belarusian spacecraft remote sensing of the Earth was created as part of a contract between the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and JSC Corporation VNIIEM.
Egypt, a suburb of Cairo
BSA was created in conjunction with the SC Canopus-V № 1 and it is a complete analog, they are called "twins". In this connection, the two spacecraft have common goals:
- Monitoring of man-made and natural disasters, including extreme weather events;
- Detection of forest fires, large emissions of pollutants into the environment;
- Monitoring of agricultural activities, natural (including water and coastal) resources;
- Land use;
- Operational monitoring target areas the earth's surface;
- Mapping.
The very first images taken by satellite remote sensing in the flight test showed a high level of quality (spatial resolution panchromatic images of ~ 2.1 m).
France, Charles de Gaulle Airport
Spacecraft carrying out occasional and regular shooting target areas the surface of the Earth. Information obtained from the spacecraft is used to control land use in agriculture, natural resource monitoring, environmental monitoring, mapping and solve a number of problems in the interests of different sectors of the economy.
During the period of regular operation (with the November 30, 2012) only companion Canopus-V was filmed over 2,800 routes, a total area of 16.5 million square kilometers of the cloudless Earth's surface, suitable for further processing.
Information from the SC Canopus-V has been successfully used satellite monitoring system to assess the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations of the situation in the disaster areas, assessment of potentially hazardous sites and areas that are in high-risk areas of a disaster, monitoring forest fires.
Russia, Kazan, central stadium
For example, the images were allowed to assess the situation in such emergencies as a sinkhole near settlement Buturlino Nizhny Novgorod region, the fall of a meteorite in the Chelyabinsk region, the gathering of cars around the settlement Utulik Irkutsk region, the gathering of cars around the settlement Tymerslol Amur region, monitoring the passage of spring floods in the Russian Federation, and more.
BKA 1
The next step in the development of this constellation will be the creation of the modernized spacecraft of this type. The main difference between the new SC from the previous installation will be on it a multi-channel radiometer, mid-and far infrared bands, which will explore a bandwidth of 2,000 km and identify pockets of fire area of 5x5 meters.
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=20222
Images, Text, Credits: Press service of the Russian Space Agency and JSC Corporation VNIIEM / ROSCOSMOS / Gunter's / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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