RCC Progress: Aist-2T satellite will be able to shoot the Moon
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The Aist-2T satellite will be able to shoot the Moon, the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RKC) told TASS.
At the same time, the RCC added that due to the great distance from the Moon, Aist-2T will not be able to conduct stereoscopic imaging of the lunar surface.
“To conduct this type of survey, the spacecraft must be located hundreds of times closer to the moon. For such purposes, including detailed imaging of the Moon, special devices are being created that are located in the orbit of the Moon, ”the developer company specified.
It is noted that in tandem with another similar spacecraft, the satellite will create a three-dimensional model of the Earth.
In May 2021, Roskosmos reported that the Russian Earth remote sensing satellite Aist-2D had captured several phases of a supermoon eclipse.
The Aist-2D spacecraft, together with Mikhail Lomonosov and SamSat-218D, was launched in April 2016 by a Soyuz-2.1a rocket with a Volga upper stage from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
