{"id":25203,"date":"2024-11-05T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25203"},"modified":"2024-11-05T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:02:33","slug":"russia-launches-rocket-with-dozens-of-satellites-including-two-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/russia-launches-rocket-with-dozens-of-satellites-including-two-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches rocket with dozens of satellites, including two from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia&#8217;s Roscosmos space agency said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Soyuz-2.1 launch spacecraft, which lifted off from Russia&#8217;s Vostochny Cosmodrome, carried two Ionosfera-M satellites, which will become part of the space system for monitoring the Earth&#8217;s ionosphere, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The ionosphere, where Earth&#8217;s atmosphere meets space, stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles (80 to 644 km) above Earth&#8217;s surface, according to information provided on NASA&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Each Ionosfera-M satellite weighs 430 kg (948 lb) and its working orbit is at an altitude of 820 km (510 miles), according to Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The system will include in total four of the Ionosfera-M satellites. The next two devices are planned to be launched in 2025, Roscosmos reported.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 53 small satellites are two Iranian satellites, the Kowsar, a high-resolution imaging satellite, and Hodhod, a small communications satellite, as well as the first Russian-Chinese student satellite Druzhba ATURK.<\/p>\n<p>Russia in February launched into space an Iranian research satellite that will scan Iran&#8217;s topography from orbit, Iran&#8217;s state media reported at the time.<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>ENDS<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia&#8217;s Roscosmos space agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,351,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-science-technology","category-headline"],"views":44,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25205,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25203\/revisions\/25205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}