Design and flight tests of science hardware video-spectral system on board the Russian segment of the ISS

Earth remote sensing including monitoring of catastrophic phenomena within space experiment Uragan on board the Russian Segment of the International Space Station is performed using digital single-lens reflect cameras with long-focal-length lens and manual spectrometric devices (science hardware Photo-spectral system). To increase the information content and interpretation quality of the data obtained science hardware Video-spectral system was delivered to the Russian segment of the International Space Station in October 2014 to measure the spectral density of radiance of 270 local zones of the underlying terrain of about 40 m in size with a spectral resolution no less than 5 nm in the range of 400... 950 nm. The article describes technical characteristics, main tasks, as well as the first measurements of the science hardware Video-spectral system.