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Kanopus-V 1, 2

Kanopus-V [NPO VNIIEM]

Kanopus-V (Kanopus-Vulkan) is a small Russian remote sensing satellite.

Provision of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Russian Academy of Sciences operational weather information for the following major tasks:

  • Monitoring of man-made and natural emergencies, including natural weather phenomena;
  • Mapping;
  • Detect pockets of forest fires and emissions of major pollutants in the environment;
  • Registration abnormal physical phenomena for earthquake prediction;
  • Monitoring of agriculture, water and coastal resources
  • Land use;

The satellite was built by NPO VNII Elektromekhaniki, who subcontracted the avionics suite to SSTL. The imager was built by OAO Peleng.

Kanopus-V features two instruments:

  • PSS (Panchromatic Imaging System):
    PSS is an instrument to provide panchromatic imagery for environmental monitoring, agriculture and forestry. It provides high resolution imagery of 2.5 m on a swath of 20 km. The spectral range is 0.5-0.8 µm.
  • MSS (Multispectral Imaging System):
    MSS is an instrument to provide multispectral imagery of land and coastal surfaces and ice cover. It provides a spatial resolution of 12 m on a swath of 20 km. Four spectral bands are provided: 0.5-0.6 µm; 0.6-0.7 µm; 0.7-0.8 µm; 0.8-0.9 µm.

A virtual copy of this satellite was built for Belarus as BKA 1.

Kanopus-V 2 has been modified with additional infra-red capability and was launched as Kanopus-V-IK 1 in 2015.

Nation: Russia
Type / Application: Earth Observation
Operator: Roskosmos
Contractors: NPP VNIIEM (prime); OAO Peleng (imager)
Equipment: PSS, MSS
Configuration: Kanopus bus
Propulsion: 2 × SPT-50
Power: 2 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries
Lifetime: 5 years
Mass: 473 kg
Orbit: 501 km × 508 km, 97.49° (#1); 500 km × 509 km, 97.47° (#3); 500 km × 509 km, 97.47° (#4); 503 km × 511 km, 97.47° (#5); 498 km × 511 km, 97.47° (#6)
Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
Kanopus-V 1 2012-039A 22.07.2012 Ba LC-31/6 Soyuz-FG Fregat with BKA 1, Zond-PP, exactView 1, TET 1
Kanopus-V 2 - modified Pl LC-133/3 Rokot-KM Kanopus-V-IK 1
Kanopus-V 3 2018-014A 01.02.2018 Vo LC-1S Soyuz-2-1a Fregat with Kanopus-V 4, S-Net A, S-Net B, S-Net C, S-Net D, Lemur-2 74, ..., 77, D-Star One v.1.1
Kanopus-V 4 2018-014B 01.02.2018 Vo LC-1S Soyuz-2-1a Fregat with Kanopus-V 3, S-Net A, S-Net B, S-Net C, S-Net D, Lemur-2 74, ..., 77, D-Star One v.1.1
Kanopus-V 5 2018-111A 27.12.2018 Vo LC-1S Soyuz-2-1a Fregat with Kanopus-V 6, GRUS 1A, Flock-3k 1, ..., 12, Lemur-2 88, ..., 95, D-Star ONE iSat, D-Star ONE Sparrow, ZACUBE 2, Lume 1, UWE 4, Dummy, SAMSON-Dummy 1, 2, 3
Kanopus-V 6 2018-111B 27.12.2018 Vo LC-1S Soyuz-2-1a Fregat with Kanopus-V 5, GRUS 1A, Flock-3k 1, ..., 12, Lemur-2 88, ..., 95, D-Star ONE iSat, D-Star ONE Sparrow, ZACUBE 2, Lume 1, UWE 4, Dummy, SAMSON-Dummy 1, 2, 3
Kanopus-V 7 - 2025 Vo LC-1S Soyuz-2-1a Fregat with Kanopus-V 8, ?
Kanopus-V 8 - 2025 Vo LC-1S Soyuz-2-1a Fregat with Kanopus-V 7, ?
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