According to the Russian Federal Space Agency on December 26, 2014 a rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with advanced Russian spacecraft of Earth’s remote sensing “Resurs-P” № 2.

The unit has scientific equipment of the “Nucleon” experiment, a key element of which is a chip of pickup and processing of signals from multichannel microstrip detectors. The chip was developed by the staff of the Application-specific integrated circuit design laboratory of the MEPhI. It has unique parameters for the dynamic range of signals being processed, which haven’t been achieved in foreign analogues (p.25 in http://www.europractice-ic.com/docs/Annual_report_2009.pdf).

“Nucleon” is a fully domestic astrophysical project. It is included in the Russian Federal Space Program, customers of which are the Federal Space Agency and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Scientific equipment “Nucleon”, developed by SINP MSU in cooperation with MEPhI and other Russian organizations, is designed to study galaxy, its facilities, to search for strange and dark matter by recording and studying galactic cosmic rays. These rays have a form of a high-rate flow of hadron elements: from protons to the heaviest nuclei of the periodic table; as well as flow of electrons and positrons of the lower intensity.