Not exactly Roscosmos, of course. NPO of measuring technology, which is located at a very well-known address in the city of Korolev.
The history of NPO measuring technology began 50 years ago. In 1946, simultaneously with the design bureau of S. P. Korolev, a laboratory of sensors and measuring systems was formed as part of the head institute for rocket and space technology (NII-88).
Its main purpose was to provide measuring instruments for ground and flight development and testing of rocket and space technology.
In 1966, on the basis of the 5th research complex of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, the Research Institute of Measuring Technology - Research Institute IT was created.
Today NPO IT is the country's leading enterprise in telemetry and sensor equipment, microelectronics for rocket and space technology.
At the ARMY-2016 forum, the staff of NPO IT presented MIP - a mobile measuring complex.
The complex consists of an antenna complex for receiving telemetric information AP-4, a mobile information-measuring module (MMII), a mobile information-measuring module No. 3 (MMII3).
Antenna complex for receiving telemetric information AP-4 is designed to receive telemetry information in meter (Ml, MI, Mill) and decimeter (D1, DM) radio wave ranges coming from special purpose facilities.
The MMII module is designed to receive, process, register and transmit telemetry and video telemetry information.
MMII module # 3 receives, preprocesses and transmits information received from spacecraft in a sun-synchronous orbit up to 800-900 kilometers high and transmitting in the L-band.
They didn’t let us go further than the threshold, "all the same, you will not understand what's what." Indeed, they would not understand.
The complex is mobile, allows you to work in the temperature range from the Far North to the tropics. The deployment time is 2 hours.
Representatives of the NGO IT spoke very willingly about civilian use. If the MIP is connected to the orbital constellation of meteorological satellites, it is possible to carry out operational monitoring of forest fires, control floods, and observe the dynamics of snow and ice cover. Hydrometeorology, agriculture, weather forecasting. There are many places where you can find use for these clever contraptions.
Military use was spoken of much more sparingly. But I had to, given that it was a military forum. Oleg Kovalev, the head of the entire delegation of NPO IT at the forum, spoke to us from the department of development, testing and scientific and technical support of mobile measuring instruments.
MIP is designed to provide information support for test launches of missiles of any base, including ICBMs. Including promising ones.
The complex is able to track everything that happens to the rocket from the moment of launch to the moment of completion of the flight. How the telemetry systems worked, where the detachable parts fell, and so on. Down to the smallest detail. Even assess the environmental impact of the launch, if necessary.
The MIP complex is the basic platform on the basis of which new, more highly specialized complexes are created. It is clear that the products designed by the order of the Strategic Missile Forces are unlikely to be able to properly work out in the interests of agriculture or the environment.
This refers to our agriculture and ecology, of course.
But for some reason there is no doubt that these complexes will become a necessary help for the Strategic Missile Forces.
