Ionosfera-M is a Constellation of four Ionospheric and Magnetospheric research

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system developed by

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for Project Ionozond.

Background

The Missions of Project Ionozond includes four Ionosfera-M and one Zond Satellite. The function of Ionosfera-M satellites is to monitor the

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and

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, while the function of Zond is to measure Solar Irradiadion. Zond part of the program was initially planned to fly with the Ionosfera-M Satellites in 2020 to observe Sun. But due to lack of funding is in hold position and possibly cancelled. Each Ionosfera-M Satellites carries the following instrument: * SPER/1-Plasma and energy radiation spectrometer * SG/1-Gamma-ray spectrometer * GALS/1-Galactic cosmic ray spectrometer / 1 * LAERTES-On-board Ionosonde * NBK/2-Low-frequency wave complex * ESEP-Ionospheric plasma energy spectrometer * Ozonometer-TM Ozonometer * MayaK-On-board radio transmitters * PES GPS-GLONASS device

List of satellites

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