EO·Atlas
Kanopus-V
Kanopus-V (KANOPUS Vulkan) is a Russian operational land-observation satellite programme with multiple flight units, developed by NPO VNIIEM and operated by Roscosmos. The first unit, Kanopus-V1, launched on 22 July 2012; WMO OSCAR lists Kanopus-V3, V4, V5, V6 and Kanopus-V-IK-1 as active through at least 2026. Operational units fly in sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 510 km altitude with a 10:30 ascending equator crossing time and a 5-day revisit cycle.[1][2]
The sensor payload across the programme includes the MSS multispectral scanner, the PSS panchromatic pushbroom sensor, the MSU-200 wide-field multispectral imager, and the MSU-IK-SR medium-resolution multispectral and thermal imager. Roshydromet serves as an agency for the programme alongside Roscosmos. Application domains include land cover change monitoring, disaster damage assessment, wildfire detection, sea-ice observation, and environmental monitoring.[3][4][5][6]
Supply chain position
- [1]KANOPUS Vulkan satellite programme, WMO OSCARcommunity2026-06-14
- [2]KANOPUS-V3 satellite record, WMO OSCARcommunity2026-06-14
- [3]MSS (KANOPUS) instrument record, WMO OSCARcommunity2026-06-14
- [4]PSS instrument record, WMO OSCARcommunity2026-06-14
- [5]MSU-200 instrument record, WMO OSCARcommunity2026-06-14
- [6]MSU-IK-SR instrument record, WMO OSCARcommunity2026-06-14
- [7]Kanopus-V N3 mission summary, CEOS EO Handbookcommunity2026-06-14
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Kanopus-V. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/missions/kanopus-v (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:missions:kanopus-v,
title = {Kanopus-V},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/kanopus-v}
}