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2024: Russia is completely switching to domestic weather satellites

The head of Roshydromet Igor Shumakov at the end of February 2024 spoke about the decision of the department to abandon the use of foreign meteorological satellites in favor of domestic ones.

Looking ahead a little, I think that by the middle or end of this [2024] year, taking into account plans to launch hydrometeorological devices, we will be able to abandon EUMETSAT altogether, "Shumakov told reporters (quoted by TASS).

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According to him, earlier Russia maintained close cooperation with Western colleagues, and the operational information supplied by them was in demand for predictive activities. However, recently, domestic meteorologists began to focus on data from Roscosmos, and Russia will continue to develop its own hydrometeorological satellites, the head of Roshydromet said at the end of February 2024.

This statement was made after the Russian hydrometeorological spacecraft Meteor-M No. 2-4 was put into orbit on February 29, 2024. This satellite will be used to solve the problems of hydrometeorological support, monitoring climate and environment, studying the natural resources of the Earth, monitoring the heliogeophysical situation in near-Earth space, obtaining information from automatic measuring platforms for collecting data and relaying signals from emergency radio beams of the international satellite search and rescue system COSPAS-SARSAT.

Meteor-M No. 2-4 is equipped with an on-board radar complex based on an active phased antenna array and heliogeophysical instruments (a short-wave reflected radiation meter and a radio-frequency mass spectrometer), which, according to Roskosmos, will ensure all-weather radar monitoring of the Northern Sea Route and expand the range of controlled heliogeophysical parameters.^[1]

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