The operator of the launch will be the company "glavkosmos launch services"
MOSCOW, February 20. /TASS/. The company "Sputnix" (a resident of Skolkovo) expects to send more than 10 small spacecraft during two rocket launches from Baikonur. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the organization.
"Sputnix plans to launch about 15 satellites in 2021," the company said.
As specified in Sputnix, in March, from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Soyuz-2.1 a carrier rocket, the Earth remote sensing satellites" Zorky", HSE-DZZ and Sirius-DZZ, as well as two foreign customers ' devices, created on the basis of the company's platform, will go into orbit. In 2021, it is planned to launch 8-10 satellites created under the Space-1 program in Russian educational institutions on the basis of the company's Cubesat platform.
"The launch operator in both cases will be Glavkosmos Launch Services," the press service said.
Launched satellites
The Zorkiy satellite will be equipped with a professional camera-telescope of NPO Lepton JSC with a resolution of up to several meters per pixel. The device was created with the support of co-financing grants from the Innovation Promotion Fund.
"The HSE-Remote Sensing satellite was created jointly by the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics and Sputnix, "the company said. It is equipped with an experimental Fresnel lens camera developed by Samara University and a high-speed X-band transmitter.
The Sirius-Remote Sensing device was created by the Higher School of Economics, the Sirius Educational Center, and Sputnix. It also has an experimental Fresnel lens camera and a high-speed X-band transmitter.
Experimental spacecraft under the Space-1 program are designed for automatic identification of ships, implementation of scientific programs, and remote sensing of the Earth.