http://news.yam.com/rusnews/international/200802/20080207098604.html
今年第三季度俄羅斯將發射首顆氣象衛星
俄新網╱俄新網 2008-02-07 01:04
俄新網RUSNEWS.CN莫斯科2月6日電 俄羅斯衛星群第一顆氣象衛星--"流星-M1"號衛星將在2008年第三季度被送入太空軌道。這是俄羅斯航天署副署長尤里·諾先科6日透露的。目前,俄羅斯還沒有自己的氣象衛星,因而被迫訂購外國衛星收集來的氣象信息。諾先科在莫斯科舉行的俄羅斯聯邦氣象和環境監測局局務會議上說:"目前,建造流星-M1號氣象衛星的工作處于收尾階段,正在組裝和測驗衛星的飛行控制組件。今年第三季度將按照我們預定計劃發射升空"。他表示,正在與氣象和環境監測局合作籌備衛星信號地面接收、處理、存檔和傳播為一體的綜合體。該綜合體應當在3月份完成准備工作。他還透露,"流星-M1"號衛星和"電子-L"地球同步衛星發來的信息將傳到該綜合體。俄羅斯將在今年11月份發射"電子-L"地球同步衛星。他還表示,這2顆衛星的組裝工作已經完成了80%。
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080206/98541189.html
Russia's first weather satellite to be launched in Jul.-Sep.
18:20 | 06/ 02/ 2008
MOSCOW, February 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's first weather satellite, Meteor-M1, will be orbited in the third quarter of this year, a space agency official said on Wednesday.
Yury Nosenko, deputy head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), said the satellite is currently undergoing flight tests and that a ground-based satellite data processing and distribution center should be up and running by March.
He said the geosynchronous satellite Elektro-L, which will "hang" above the Indian Ocean, is to be launched in November.
At present, Russia has no weather satellites of its own, and has to rely on foreign spacecraft for meteorological data.
Three out of four transmitters aboard the Meteor-3M satellite broke down in late 2003, just two years after the satellite's launch, and ground control stopped receiving signals.
The Russian government previously said it will restore the network of weather satellites it had in Soviet times, which could monitor conditions across the country's 11 time zones.