Nadezhda-M

Nadezhda

Nadezhda-M is a hybrid version of the Nadezhda space craft series, which still uses the KAUR-1 bus of the earlier versions, but features the new onboard search and rescue transponder, RK-SM. Follow-on RK-SM units will use Sterkh, the new microsatellite bus developed in Omsk.

Nation: Russia
Type / Application: Navigation / SAR Transponder
Operator:
Contractors: NPO Prikladnoi Mekhaniki (NPO PM)
Equipment: RK-SM
Configuration: KAUR-1
Propulsion:
Power: Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:
Mass: 825 kg
Orbit: 987 km × 1022 km, 82.9°
Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
Nadezhda 7 (Nadezhda-M #1, COSPAS 10) 2002-046A 26.09.2002 Pl LC-132/1 Kosmos-3M

Launch Sites:

  • Pl =   Plesetsk (NIIP-53, GIK-1, GNIIP), Russia   Russia
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