Kompass

 2006-019A

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Complex Orbital Magneto-Plasma Autonomous Small Satellite

(possibly: Kompleksniy Orbital'niy Magnito-Plazmenniy Avtonomniy Sputnik; not confirmed)

Launch by RSM-54 Shtil'.

Truncated prism + 2 panel + booms. 0.5m dia 1.0? m long 3?m span. Mass 80 kg. Plan 400-500 x 620 km x 79 deg.

Launch by Ekaterinburg K-84 in submerged position. The satellite initially failed, but was reactivated in Dec 2006.

Kompass
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2006 May 26	1850	Launch by Shtil'
		Stage 1 burn
	1851:15	T+1:15 Stage 1 Sep 30 km	-6300? x 60? x 78.9
		T+1:15 Interstage halves sep
	1851:15	Stage 2 burn
	1852:49	T+2:49 Stage 2 sep 109 km	-5200? x 160? x 78.9
		T+2:49 Mode A start, Stage 3 MES 109 km
	1854:16	T+4:16 Mode M start 174 km, Stage 3 MECO	-1650? x 400 x 78.9
	1855:20	T+5:20 Stage 3 engine sep 224 km; impact Pacific	-1620? x 400 x 78.9
	1900:41	T+10:41 B mode, Apogee leg begins, BR MES 800 m/s?	-1500? x 400 x 78.9
	1905:06	T+15:06 Apogee leg ends, BR MECO	400 x 700? x 78.9
		BR in low thrust mode
	1905:11	T+15:11 Payload capsule sep from nosecone	400 x 710? x 78.9
	1905:47	T+15:47 Payload capsule cover ejected
	1905:47	T+15:47 Payload ejected from capsule at 2.2m/s
	1905:47	T+15:47 Nosecone thrust off, 100m away
		Stage 2 impact 85E 78N
	1913?	Stage 3 engine impact Pacific range 9052 km, 173E 25N?
2006 May		Transmitter failed?
2006 Dec		Reactivated

Payload:

• PES Total electron content, plasma concentration

• MAYAK Ionospheric vertical profile, electron concentration over seismo-active regions

• RFA Radio frequency analyser 100 kHz - 15.1 MHz E fields

• NVK Low frequency UHF/VHF wave burns, links between seismic activity and electromagnetic fields