Science

2024-199K

Various (rideshare cluster) · GK Launch Services / various Russian institutions

This object is one satellite from a massive Russian rideshare mission — COSPAR designation 2024-199 — that launched November 4, 2024 aboard a Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M rocket from Vostochny, carrying dozens of small satellites for GK Launch Services, a commercial Russian rideshare broker. The primary payloads were a pair of Ionosfera-M ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites operated by Russia's Space Research Institute (IKI RAN), accompanied by roughly two dozen university and small-institution CubeSats from across Russia — student-built technology demonstrators, amateur radio payloads, Earth-observation experiments, and IoT test satellites from institutions including Moscow State University, Samara University, and multiple regional technical universities. This specific object's individual identity within that large batch could not be confirmed with certainty during research, though the launch, orbit, and general mission context are well documented.