Tag: Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

The Kondor-FKA is a small civilian radar Earth observation satellite designed by NPO Mashinostroyeniya as a civilian counterpart to the Kondor-E satellite. The Kondor satellite features a S-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can conduct both continous swath surweys or detailed spot surveys. The swath width is 10 km. Ground resolution is 1 to 2 m in spotlight mode, 1 to 3 m in stripmap mode and 5 to 30 m in ScanSAR mode.

Meteor-M satellites are a new generation of Russian meteorological satellites to replace the Meteor-3M series. The first two Meteor-M satellites will feature following instruments: – MSU-MR – Low-resolution Multispectral Scanner for global and regional for cloud cover mapping – KMSS-2 – multichannel scanning unit for Earth surface monitoring – MTVZA-GYa – imager/sounder for Atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles, sea surface wind – IKFS-2 advanced IR sounder for Atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles – BRK SSPD – Data Collection System – RK-SM-MKA – Modified Rescue Radio complex One initial Meteor-M 1 satellite was built, followed by the improved Meteor-M 2 series satellites.