Russia Launches First Arctic-Monitoring Satellite Arktika-M

On February 28, 2021, ROSCOSMOS the  Russian Space Corporation launched its first satellite to monitor and determine the environment and weather at the Arctic Circle. Not only that, the satellite had also collected a few images of the arctic circle. And this satellite was popularly known as Arktika-M Satellite. The Arktika-M Satellite comes among the satellites that have developed remote sensing and emergency communication sensors in it. The satellite is being operated in a highly elliptical 12-hour orbit. The Arktika-M Satellite is specially made in such a way that the satellite system can collect as much as information to resolve the operational, hydrological, and meteorological problems, along with it so that the satellite can also monitor the environment and weather in that region and can give a glimpse of it to the whole world. 

Russia Launches Arktika-M satellite the first Arctic Monitoring Satellite 

Russia Launches the Arktika-M Satellite which is the first satellite launched to monitor the weather and environment of the Arctic Circle region. Due to pollution and global warming on the planet earth, a lot of climatic changes are taking place in different regions of the earth. Therefore, to monitor and encounter the climatic changes and environmental changes in the Arctic region, On Sunday, February 28, 2021, Russia launched its first space satellite named Arktika-M Satellite to the Arctic Circle. According to the scientist, the satellite will provide the clock with all monitored information and images of the Northern territory of Russia and the Oceans and Seas of the Arctic Circle to the Russian Space Corporation. Along with this, the satellite will also send images of the Northern polar region of the earth and its nearby areas every 15-30 minutes. The Arktika-M satellite was carried out by a rocket named Soyuz-2.1 carrier from Kazakhstan. As per information from researchers and scientists, it was found that the ice at Arctic Circle is melting very fastly due the global warming and other climatic and environmental changes. To confirm the news the Russian Space Corporation decided to launch a satellite to the Arctic Circle to have a look at its environmental and climatic changes. 

About the launch 

A video was being published on social media platforms by the Russian space agency which briefly showed the blast launch of Soyuz-2.1 carrier aircraft against the greyish sky at 0655 GMT, containing the Arktika-M Satellite. The Chief of the Russian space agency Dmitry Rogozin informed the world by posting this video of the launch on Twitter about the routine of Launch. Along with it, The Russian Space Agency clarified a few statements about the Arktika-M Satellite. They said that the satellite’s hydro meteorological system is created in such a way to collect and monitor the information about climate change and the environment of the Arctic region. They also said that this mission would require two satellites to operate this mission properly and successfully. As the first satellite reaches there it will start sending information and monitor the environment and climate in the Arctic region oceans and seas, the northern territory of Russia round the clock. 

As per the reports of the RIA news agency the second launch of the Arktika satellite has been scheduled for the year 2023. The main reason behind all this mission is nothing but the economic development of the Arctic region is the major aim of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It has been observed that the Arctic region has a quite good amount of oil and gas reserves that are being eyed by many countries including the USA, Russia, Canada, and many more. Therefore, the main reason behind this launch is nothing but to capture the oil and gas reserves of the arctic region that have been escaped for ages under the snow capes.  And now due to global warming and pollution, these snow capes are slowly becoming water and are flowing down. The UK scientists revealed a few months back that the ice was disappearing from the world at a very high rate due to environmental issues, pollution, and global warming in the environment. 

Conclusion 

This article briefly talked about Russia launching the first Satellite to monitor Arctic Circle environment and weather. The Russian space agency launched the first satellite to monitor the environment and climate changes in the arctic region. The launch took place on, February 28, 2022, Sunday. The Russian Space Corporation launched its first satellite, the Arktika-M Satellite in the Soyuz-2.1 carrier rocket. The rocket was being blasted from the Baikonur cosmodrome region of Kazakhstan on February 28, 2021. After this rocket launch, the Arktika-M Satellite was later launched into orbit.