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Monitor Small Spacecraft
Small Spacecraft
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The Yakhta-based Monitor family of small spacecraft is designed to serve as an EO constellation.The KhSC EO constellation plan envisages four types of optoelectronic spacecraft (Monitor E, Monitor I #1, Monitor I #2, Monitor S and Monitor O) and two models of SAR spacecraft (Monitor RZ and Monitor R23).
Monitor I’s instruments have more spectral bands and a better resolution as compared to Monitor E.
Applications:
Agriculture, irrigation, forestry, environmental monitoring, geological mapping, prospecting, forecasting dangerous geodynamic phenomena, disaster monitoring and disaster impact assessment, hydrology, oceanology, and 1:50,000 mapping.
Monitor S, a 3D panchromatic imager with a 4-m resolution, will be a good addition to the earlier satellites to broaden the range of applications.
Applications:
1:25,000 mapping, inventory of natural resources, surveying, architectural design and construction, geological mapping, prospecting, forecasting dangerous geodynamic phenomena, disaster monitoring and disaster impact assessment, agriculture, forestry, and environmental monitoring.
Monitor O carries a high-resolution camera (1 or 2 m).
Applications:
1:10,000 mapping, inventory of natural resources, surveying, design and construction, geological mapping, prospecting for mineral resources, forecasting dangerous geodynamic phenomena, disaster monitoring and impact assessment, agriculture, irrigation, forestry, environmental monitoring and hydrology.
Monitor R3 will be equipped with an X-band (3.2-cm) SAR with resolutions of 3 to 5, 20/40 or 100 m.
Applications:
Monitoring ice conditions, oceanology, 1:25,000 mapping, geological mapping and prospecting, disaster monitoring and impact assessment, agriculture, and environmental monitoring.
Monitor R3 will be equipped with an L-band (23.2-cm) SAR with resolutions of 5 to 10, 20/40 or 100 m.
Applications:
1:25,000 mapping, oceanology, hydrology, geological mapping and prospecting, disaster monitoring and impact assessment, agriculture, forestry, and environmental monitoring.
Monitor E, the first spacecraft from this family, will carry two cameras (one with an 8-m and the other with a 20-m resolution) and will be launched by a Rockot LV from Plesetsk in 2003.
This will be an experimental mission whose goal will be to finalize the design of both the dedicated instruments and Yakhta service systems. Monitor E will fly a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of 540 km and an inclination of 97.5 degrees.
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