Nadezhda-M

Nadezhda

Nadezhda-M is a hyrbrid version of the Nadezhda space craft series, which still uses the KAUR-1 bus of the earlier versions, but features the new onboard search and rescue transponder, RK-SM. Follow-on RK-SM units will use Sterkh, the new microsatellite bus currently in development in Omsk.

 

 

Nation: Russia
Type / Application: Navigation / SAR Transponder
Operator:
Contractors: NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki (NPO PM)
Equipment: RK-SM
Configuration: KAUR-1
Propulsion:
Power: Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:
Mass: 825 kg
Orbit: 987 km × 1022 km, 82.9°
Satellite Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
Nadezhda 7 (Nadezhda-M #1, COSPAS 10) 26.09.2002 Pl LC-132/1 Kosmos-3M