{"id":215136,"date":"2025-12-28T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215136\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:33:07","slug":"russia-launches-52-satellites-from-eastern-spaceport-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/215136\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches 52 satellites from eastern spaceport- The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, Dec 28 (PTI) Russia on Sunday launched its Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from its eastern spaceport \u201cVostochny\u201d with 52 satellites, according to Rossiya-24 TV channel.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The payload consists of two Aist-2T satellites for stereoscopic photography of the Earth surface and 50 smaller spacecraft, national space agency \u201cRoscosmos\u201d said.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0According to Roscosmos, the Aist-2T Earth remote sensing spacecraft are designed to photograph the planet\u2019s surface and obtain stereoscopic images to create digital terrain models. <br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The satellites will also be used to monitor emergencies, including fires, floods, and volcanic activity. <br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The two Aist-2T series spacecraft, Number 1 and Number 2, will work together to improve data accuracy and obtain more complete and detailed information about the areas under study. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The planned active service life of the satellites is at least five years.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some of the smaller spacecraft were developed by different Russian universities, as well as small CubeSat satellites under the Universat programme that will monitor climate change and \u201cspace weather\u201d in low Earth orbit in the interests of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service, Roscosmos elaborated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow, Dec 28 (PTI) Russia on Sunday launched its Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from its eastern spaceport \u201cVostochny\u201d with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-215136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}