“I would like to mention the first Arktika-M weather satellite among the flagship projects. According to experts, the project allowed Russia to outrank some Western counties in similar developments. Plans call for the second satellite to be launched in 2023. When there are four of them, Russia will be able to monitor the Arctic in good resolution every fifteen minutes and receive up to 2 million images per year,” Korchunov said at the forum’s strategic session devoted to digital transformation.
The first Arktika-M meteorological satellite was placed into a highly elliptical orbit in February 2021. According to the press service of the Mars design bureau in Moscow, the next Arktika-M satellite will be launched in 2023. There are plans to launch two more satellites of the Arktika-M series by 2025.
Source: https://arctic.ru/infrastructure/20220822/1004294.html.
