Cosmonautics. Canopus - Earth Explorer (2017)

From the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Soyuz launch vehicle launched the Canopus-V-IK spacecraft and several dozen mini-satellites into orbit. "Canopus" is the brainchild of the Moscow enterprise "VNIIEM Corporation".

From Earth's orbit, Canopus will view the planet using an infrared camera, which is why the device received the IR index.

Pavel Stolyarenko, Deputy Head of the VNIIEM Department, Pavel Sachkov and Alexey Zaporozhtsev, Deputy Chief Designers of VNIIEM, told about the satellite and how it will work.