Launched in February, Russia's Arktika-M satellite of hydrometeorological and climate monitoring has captured the origin of eddies over the Northern Hemisphere. This was announced by Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of the state corporation Roscosmos, on his Facebook page, stressing that before the launch of this spacecraft, “no one received dynamic processes in the northern region of the globe and with such frequency – we are the first.”
“Roshydromet has started developing weather forecast models based on information from the Arktika-M apparatus. In one of the images sent by the satellite, you see the emergence of vortices and weather over the Northern Hemisphere, ”wrote Dmitry Rogozin.
The head of Roscosmos added that Arktika-M is a unique tool for monitoring large fires. According to him, “for several hours (with one spacecraft) every 15 minutes, images can be obtained, with the help of which the intensity and direction of the spread of fires are controlled.”
As the website kp.ru wrote, on February 28, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Arktika-M satellite was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Later, the Fregat upper stage successfully put the vehicle into a highly elliptical orbit.
