Roskosmos will launch satellites for creation of a 3D model of Earth

On October 8, 2020 it became known of plans of Roskosmos to create Earth 3D model, using the Stork-2T satellites which start is planned for 2022. The deputy director of department of the navigation space systems (GLONASS) of Roskosmos Valery Zaichko reported about it.

According to him, two Stork-2T spacecrafts with stereoscopic shooting will be created and with a resolution of two meters which since 2023 will allow "it is not simple to start formation of model of Earth in two-dimensional measurement any more, but also in stereoscopic, three-dimensional that will allow Rosreestr and Roskartografiya to solve those problems which face them".

Earlier Roskosmos announced competition on creation of a space complex of the remote sensing of Earth (RSE) including grouping from two small Stork-2T spacecrafts at the starting price in 2.179 billion rubles.

Roskosmos is going to zayepustit satellites for creation of a 3D model of Earth

The complex is intended for stereoscopic shooting of the Earth's surface and will be created within the Space Activity of Russia state program. According to the tender documentation, the Stork-2T small spacecraft (SS) should make flight on a sun-synchronous orbit with average height in altitude range from 350 to 500 km and should be expected term of active existence not less than five years.

Valery Zaichko reported that by October 8, 2020 the contract for creation of these satellites is signed with the Progress State Research and Production Space Centre (Samara). It did not begin to open details of this agreement.

It is supposed that receiving the panchromatic and blocked space images and color images of the land surface, delivery to the target information on a radio channel obtained onboard devices to ground stations of acceptance will be the main objectives of satellites.^[1]

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