Ionosfera-M n°3, 4

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Liftoff Time (GMT)

05:54:04

Friday July 25, 2025

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Ionosfera-M n°3 & 4

Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond. The satellites will operate on circular sun-synchronous orbits (SSO), at altitude of about 800 km and located in two orbital planes of two satellites each. The following science instruments are carried on the satellites: * SPER/1 Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer * SG/1 Gamma-ray spectrometer * GALS/1 Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1 * LAERTES On-board Ionosonde * NBK/2 Low-frequency wave complex * ESEP Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer * Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer * MayaK On-board radio transmitters * PES GPS-GLONASS device

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

2 Payloads

400 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M

Active Since 2011

RKK Energiya logo

Manufacturer

RKK Energiya

Price

$25.00 million

Rocket

Height: 46.94m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 7,500 kg

GTO: 3,250 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,550 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.11m

Height: 11.43m

Stages

4

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

General Trajectory

Launching

North

Site 1S

Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia

Fastest Turnaround

24 days 22 hours

Stats

Soyuz 2.1b


96th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2025

2025


158th

Orbital launch attempt