KuzGTU: Satellites for collecting data on the impact of the space environment on spacecraft and stations

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2023: Satellite Development

Kuzbass State Technical University and the space company SPUTPS (part of the Sitronics Group) have developed and assembled a satellite, the task of which will be to collect data on the impact of the space environment on vehicles and stations. The launch will take place in May 2023 as part of the Space-Pi scientific and educational federal project. The company "Satellites" announced this on February 13, 2023.

The spacecraft was assembled on the basis of the OrbiCraft-Pro platform, developed by SPUTPS engineers. The payload was developed by students and scientists of KuzSTU. This is a special mechanism with sensors that will have to record vibrations at different deformations and different frequencies in outer space.

The satellite will be launched to determine the impact of the space environment on this mechanism. It mimics part of the station's hull. The collected data are necessary to build an accurate computer model used in the design of spacecraft, - said Alexander Grigoriev, associate professor of the Department of Electric Drive and Automation, KuzGTU, payload developer.

Data processing will be carried out by employees of the flight control center of KuzGTU and students of the training areas "Electronics and Nanoelectronics," "Automation in Energy," "Power Supply," as well as interested schoolchildren. The satellite will be launched into orbit thanks to the large-scale federal educational project Space-Pi, which is aimed at attracting schoolchildren and students to study space technologies and apply them in various fields.

As part of the project, we have already helped to assemble 13 spacecraft for scientifically educational tasks. This year, 9 more satellites are planned. With their help, students and schoolchildren explore the magnetic field, Lands monitor in the Arctic and monitor the movement of glaciers, learn to collect data to clarify the meteorological situation of their region, conduct biological experiments. They study on our devices, to programming satellite engineering, circuitry. We see in these guys future specialists on whom development will depend, - space industry in Russia commented the general director of SPUTPS. Vladislav Ivanenko

The project is being implemented with the financial support of the Innovation Assistance Fund within the framework of the "Planet Duty" competition. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to create and launch 100 small scientific and spacecraft into orbit, which will be combined into groups to fulfill their tasks.