Meteor-M was launched on September 17, 2009 from the Baikonur cosmodrome. This is the first of a series of promising spacecrafts created for hydrometeorological support. It is intended to obtain information promptly for the purposes of weather forecasting, monitoring the ozone layer and the radiation situation in the near-Earth space, as well as for monitoring the sea surface, including ice conditions. Created by order of Roscosmos and Roshydromet in FSUE “NPP VNIIEM” (Moscow). It was decommissioned in November 2014. On July 8, 2014, the satellite Meteor-M No. 2 was launched.
Characteristics of the space satellite
| Operating country | Russia |
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