Science

2024-199AC

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

This object is one of the small satellites deployed from Russia's large November 4, 2024 Vostochny rideshare mission, COSPAR designation 2024-199, alongside the flight's primary Ionosfera-M ionospheric and magnetospheric research payloads and roughly two dozen additional university-built CubeSats. Its specific identity could not be matched to a named payload with confidence during research; the launch as a whole is well documented, run by commercial rideshare broker GK Launch Services on behalf of numerous Russian academic institutions, but individual satellite manifests for missions this size are not always fully public, leaving some objects only traceable through direct orbital-catalog lookups.