Soyuz 2.1b Ionosfera-M n°3, 4 launch bulletin
Soyuz 2.1b Ionosfera-M n°3, 4 launch bulletin
The Ionosfera-M n°3, 4 launch of a Soyuz 2.1b out of Site 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia, is currently scheduled for 2025-07-25 05:54 UTC.
Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond.
The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each.
The following science instruments are carried on the satellites:
- SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer
- SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer
- GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1
- LAERTES On-board Ionosonde
- NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex
- ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer
- Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer
- MayaK On-board radio transmitters
- PES GPS-GLONASS device
Webcasts:
- Roscosmos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn5ZxN0NOMw
- International Rocket Launches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4GWe7hlhnU
- The Space Devs: