Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Ionosfera-M 3 & 4

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

SUCCESS
Success

Friday, July 25, 2025 · 05:54 UTC

Mission

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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

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Soyuz 2.1b Fregat-M

Variant: Fregat-M

Launch Pad

Cosmodrome Site 1S

Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

51.884° N, 128.334° E

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