MOSCOW.(Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti). --...
to build.Another competitive single space platform, Neva, has been made in St. Petersburg by the Arsenal Design Bureau. It is intended for use with the Skif air-to-space orbiting system in which a Tu-22M (Backfire) acts as a primary carrier orbiting the payload from a high altitude using a special space booster. The Neva is going to be the basis for light spacecraft under 300 kg (660 lbs) for a variety of research and commercial applications.
Like the Yakhta, Neva is conceptually a platform compatible with interchangeable task-specific modules. One example is the Sever, an Arsenal spacecraft with a synthesized aperture radar. Primarily designed to monitor ice movements in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and freezing seas of moderate zones, it will also yield valuable remote sensing data in other domains. The onboard imagery processing capability enables it to transmit data directly to downlink facilities originally designed for the heavy Resurs-DKs, Monitors, and
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