Des microsatellites par...douzaines

Roscosmos va lancer des microsatellites par douzaines, tous construit sur la plateforme "Karat" mais chacun spécialisé dans une tâche bien précise.

Voici donc venu le temps du "downsizing" des satellites... Les lanceurs lourds ont du souci à se faire...

Microsatellites
:: 08.03.2010

Roskosmos plans to launch two dozen microsatellites created based on the platform "Carat" More than 20 small spacecraft designed to perform highly specialized scientific tasks planned to create a platform-based "Karat".

They will then be put into orbit within the federal space program. It is reported by Interfax. Orbit "Carats" will show as a passing load with a large apparatus. "For the first five of them already have a payload of Sciences", - said deputy head of Federal Space Agency Anatoly Shilov. Unified mikroplatforma "Karat" is being developed in Russia's Lavochkin. At its base you can create small satellites for various purposes - astrophysics, Earth remote sensing satellites (ERS), spacecraft for fundamental scientific research. One of the major strengths of small spacecraft (ICA) - price and attractiveness of the manufacturing launch into space.

Given the relatively low price of such vehicles from them can be formed in satellite communications systems, continuous monitoring of the Earth's surface, research. The advantage of such systems is the high survivability and reliability.

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