Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Geostationary Orbit
Pad: 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
Elektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real-time images of clouds and the Earth's underlying surface, heliogeophysical measurements, collection and translating hydrometeorological and service data.