The Russian Meteorological companion " Electro-L ", which must be launched into orbit by the Ukrainian rocket carrier "Zenith-B" at the beginning of winter, shipped from Moscow to Baikonur, follows from the message published in the published account of Roscosmos in social networks.

"Today, October 16, 2015, at 10: 00 Moscow time the spacecraft" Electro-L "? 2 was shipped to the Baikonur cosmodrome. Sending is carried out from Sheremetyevo airport by plane an-124. The launch was scheduled for December 2015, " - said in the report.

Meteorological spacecraft of the 2nd generation " Elektro-L "? 2 the development of Scientific and production Association Lavochkin will be launched into orbit by the carrier rocket " Zenit-B ". Participation in the preparation of the rocket will take the experts of the developer company "Zenit" production Association "southern machine-building enterprise" named after Makarov (Yuzhmash, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine).

"Electro-L "? 2 - updated Meteorological unit Earth remote sensing (ERS). It will perform the same targets as the satellite " Electro-L "? 1, but this changes the shooting mode and the quality of the photos.

Scanning complex machine will not carry out parallel-serial shooting in different channels and at the same time in all 10 spectral ranges." Electro-L "? 2 will provide multispectral imaging of the entire disk of the Earth in visible and infrared bands (resolution 1 km and 4 km respectively)

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