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<\/font><\/em>L2, one of the only places in the world you can view underground information on space flight in its full documented form. To join L2, click the advert \u2014><\/p>\n<\/font>**Related update pages**<\/font> The spacecraft features a Radio Frequency Analyzer and a HF radio spectrometer that has been developed jointly by the Space Research Centre (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and IRF in Uppsala. While the Kompas range will help the \u2018development of the methods of monitoring and forecasting of natural disasters on the base of coordinated monitoring at the earth and from space the pre-earthquake phenomena,\u2019 according to a Russian outline document by Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia will also be increasing its knowledge in microsatellite technology.<\/font><\/p>\n Just this year NASA launched ST-5, consisting of three microsats in what is a potentially large future market.<\/font><\/p>\n The microsat range of Kompas (Compass) will also aid the development in the methods of monitoring of man made catastrophes, plus the study of electro dynamical coupling of the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere.<\/font><\/p>\n Weighing in at just 80kg, the microsat range is building a constellation in a circular orbit of 400 km and at an inclination of 79 degrees.<\/p>\n NASASPACEFLIGHT.COM RSS FEED \u2014> Also part of Compass-2\u2019s device range are instruments that should make it possible to study electromagnetic emission in the broad spectrum range (up to 15 MHz), obtain plasma distribution structure and measure flows of eneregetic particles. This should help to produce detailed description of the physical phenomena in the ionosphere during buildup and development phases of different anomalous phenomena. <\/font><\/p>\n Compass (1) carried with it a range of instruments that included a very low \/low frequency wave spectr-analyzer; radio frequency wave spectr-analyzer; GPS\/radiotomografy receivers; UHF transmitter and a charged partical detector.<\/p>\n The successful mission of Compass one resulted in the upcoming Compass 2 launch \u2013 and is likely to lead to a follow-up Compass 3 effort.<\/p>\n <\/u><\/font><\/p>\n Company News (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Shtil rocket (RSM-54) launched on Friday (twice delayed from Wednesday) from a Russian strategic nuclear-powered submarine \u201cEkaterinburg\u201d \u2013 currently in position in the Barents Sea for a launch time of 18:50 UTC, carrying the Kompas-2 satellite, part of a family of satellites that can detect earthquake forerunners. The spacecraft is part of a family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\u2018The Northern Fleet on Friday at 10:50 pm (0450 AEST) went ahead with the launch of a scientific satellite Kompas-2 from the Barents Sea with the help of a Shtil launcher,\u2019 a navy spokesman said.<\/p>\n
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