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MOSCOW. (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti.)...
and an analysis center. The ground facilities lack the scope and access to recordable events, which explains the need for an orbital component to yield a global survey of seismic activity with accurately timed warnings (one to five days between a precursor and a possible earthquake). All in all, two groups of small satellites are to be deployed at 400-500- and 900-1,000-km solar synchronous orbits.When fully operational, the Vulkan"s ground and spaceborne components will collect, process and analyze the disaster precursor data, thus contributing to medium-, long- and short-term plans of emergency management services in Russia and internationally.
Yury Zaitsev is an expert with the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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