Science

2024-199AS

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

This object is one of roughly two dozen small satellites that flew together on Russia's November 4, 2024 Vostochny rideshare mission, COSPAR designation 2024-199, a launch anchored by the Ionosfera-M ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites operated by Russia's Space Research Institute. Its specific identity and payload purpose could not be confirmed with confidence during research; sources that do document this mission in detail tend to name only the larger or more distinctive payloads, leaving smaller catalog entries like this one best resolved through a direct lookup against Space-Track or a similar authoritative tracking database rather than general reporting.