Russia Launches Its Initial Arctic-Monitoring Satellite Arktika-M

A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday carrying Russia’s very first satellite for monitoring the Arctic’s climate, the Roscosmos room company mentioned. 

Online video published by the Russian area agency confirmed the Soyuz blaster launching towards gray skies at 0655 GMT (12:25pm IST), carrying an Arktika-M satellite. 

Area company main Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter afterwards that interaction with the satellite had been proven.

The monitoring technique will want at minimum two satellites to work adequately, the house agency mentioned.

“As element of the program, they will supply spherical-the-clock all-temperature monitoring of the Earth’s surface and the seas of the Arctic Ocean,” it additional. 

The start of the second Arktika-M satellite is planned for 2023, Russian condition information agency RIA Novosti described.

Financial exploitation of the Arctic is one particular of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s crucial ambitions.

The Arctic holds massive oil and gasoline reserves that are currently being eyed by Russia and other countries which includes the United States, Canada, and Norway.

Uk scientists very last thirty day period described ice was disappearing throughout the planet at a price that matched “worst-scenario climate warming eventualities”. 

The group from the universities of Edinburgh and Leeds and University Faculty London found that some of the largest losses in the final a few a long time have been from Arctic Sea ice.

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