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Our team at SINP MSU has been conducting radiation research using spectrometers on small spacecraft since 2022. The KODIZ device, a combined radiation detector, was launched in 2022 on the Monitor-1 satellite and contained a detector telescope, which made it possible to assess the possibility of creating ultra-small spectrometers. In 2024, the SUP – a universal proton spectrometer was launched as part of the Altair satellite and is currently undergoing flight tests. The KODIZ-2 instrument, which consists of three detector telescopes and a Cherenkov detector, is being prepared for future research on the Scorpion satellite. The sensitivity directions of the detector telescopes are directed orthogonally, which will make it possible to obtain information about the flux of trapped particles in the radiation belts and flux of precipitating particles. The semiconductor detectors in the telescopes are supplemented with a scintillation CsI detector, which made it possible to expand the energy range of registered protons to 80 MeV. The presence of a network of satellites with spectrometers in low Earth orbit will make it possible to create a system for operational monitoring of radiation conditions in low Earth orbit.