
Earth Science
Kanopus-V is a series of small remote sensing satellites, dedicated to monitoring manmade and natural emergencies, detecting forest fires and major emissions of atmosphere pollutants. Its other uses are monitoring of agriculture, water and coastal resoures, land use. Each satellite weighs about 500 kg and is placed into sun-synchronous orbit, where it is planned to operate for about 5 years.
Orbital Attempt
#5,720
RFSA Mission
#271
Pad Launch
#3
Location Launch
#3
Designator
2018-014
Feb 1, 2018, 2:07 AM
1 update
The Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian spaceport above the 51st parallel north in the Amur Oblast, in the Russian Far East. It is intended to reduce Russia's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The first launch took place on 28 April 2016 at 02:01 UTC.
Timezone
Asia/Yakutsk
Local Launch Time
Feb 1, 2018, 11:07 AM
Total Launches
21
Total Landings
0
Coordinates
51.8844, 128.3339