State and perspectives of space complexes “Kanopus-V” and “Meteor-M” development

Abstract

. JSC “VNIIEM Corporation” creates and develops two main directions of space complexes (SC) for the Earth remote sensing: 1) SCs on the base of “Kanopus-V” satellites for anthropogenic and natural disaster monitoring, 2) hydro-meteorological SCs on the base of “Meteor-M” satellites. A lot of data including task compositions, orbital characteristics, on-board payload parameters, planning times to launch new satellites in their orbits, father trends for perspective space craft development are given for both of the above mentioned SCs.