SPbPU: Polytech Universe (CubeSat 3U nanosatellites)

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2022: Polytech Universe-1 and Polytech launched Polytech nanosatellites Universe-2

16 small spacecraft of the Space Pi educational project were launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The Soyuz-2.1b Raketa carrier with the Fregat upper stage launched a commercial foreign satellite into orbit, and nanosatellites were also taken on board as a payload. Among the small spacecraft are two cubsats of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic, developed at the Higher School of Applied Physics and Space Technologies of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications. This was announced by SPbPU on August 9, 2022.

Petersburg Polytechnic is one of the participants in the Space Pi project. The university has developed two CubeSat 3U spacecraft called Polytech Universe-1 and Polytech Universe-2. They will study the level of electromagnetic radiation on the surface of the Earth in various frequency ranges. The signal control and reception center is located on the territory of the university. The launch of the spacecraft took place with the support and direct participation of the State Corporation Roscosmos.

As noted in Roskosmos, it was the 12th launch of the Russian launch vehicle in 2022 and the fourth from the Baikonur cosmodrome. For the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, this flight was the 57th, for the Fregat upper stage - the 109th in history.

Both Polytech nanosatellites - Polytech Universe-1 and Polytech Universe-2 - successfully entered polar orbit with an altitude of 405-420 kilometers. The first communication session was successful, both sets are running, telemetry was received. The operability of the device nodes will also be checked. told the scientific director of the project, professor of the Higher School of Applied Physics and Space Technologies of SPBPU, Sergey Makarov.

The Russian project Space Pi is designed for the fact that by 2025 100 domestic cubsats will orbit the Earth. The project is being implemented by the Russian movement of schoolchildren (RDS) together with the State Corporation Roscosmos, domestic manufacturers of nanosatellites (Geoskan Group of Companies, Nilakt DOSAAF LLC, etc.), seventeen Russian universities from St. Petersburg to Krasnoyarsk, with the main role of SPBPU Peter the Great, with the financial support of the State Innovation Promotion Fund. The project is aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the field of science-intensive technologies related to space research. As part of the project, schoolchildren offer their ideas of payload for satellites, participate in their development, use satellite data to implement their own projects. For these schoolchildren, special shifts are also provided at the Artek MDC and the Eaglet VDC.