“Arctica M” and first discoveries

Holding “Russian Space Systems” (RCS, is included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) summed up the first five months of work in the orbit of the unique hydrometeorological satellite of remote sensing of the Earth “Arctic-M” No. 1. Space apparatus with the RCC setup equipment opened new opportunities To observe changes in weather on the planet, environmental monitoring, the study of solar activity, the control of the Arctic territories and the solution of other global tasks.

Chief Designer of the RCS direction Yuri Hectin: “We are not so often we can proudly say that Russia has made a project that exists for the first time in the world.” Arctic “is exactly the case where we were the first. The information received from the “Arctic” is unique. Now we have the opportunity to observe all the polar areas with a periodicity of 15 minutes, there was nothing like that before. “

“Arctica-M” observes the entire area of Siberia with a periodicity of a quarter of an hour. These data can be used for operational analysis and forecasting the evolution of forest fires in the region, increasing the resource efficiency of their extinguishing.

Yuri hectin: “The land climate depends on the weather in the Arctic. Movement of ice, snow cover changes, the parameters of the Arctic winds – for the first time in the world” Arctic-M “received these data necessary to build a climate map of our planet, creating global models, defining climate development. The satellite is located on a unique high-elliptical orbit, which allows you to shoot from a distance of 30-40 thousand km above the ground with a total duration of 6 hours a day, observe the formation of clouds, atmospheric, aerosol changes, the number of air pollution and many other processes. This is a new word in hydrometeorology. “

The primary radiometric and geometric processing of information from the satellite is carried out directly in the MCS-GS-M with the help of its own computing tools and algorithms. Next, the obtained digital stream enters the on-board data collection system (BSSD-VE), which is combined into a single digital stream with official information from the onboard command device and targeted information from the Heliogophysical hardware complex (GGAK-WE). The information is then entered in the onboard radiotechnical complex (BRTC-WE) and is transmitted to the ground reception and data processing items, where there are several processing stages and comes to ground consumers. The systems participating in the processing are developed and manufactured in the RCC.

/Media reports.