CubeSat

On Tuesday, at 08:52:38 (Moscow time), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 16 small spacecraft designed within the educational project Space-π, were launched into space, while being an additional payload to a commercial foreign satellite. The main and additional payloads were sent into orbit with the help of the launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1b and the Fregat upper stage. Among small spacecraft is our СubeSat Geoscan-Edelveis. This is the first-ever private spacecraft from Saint Petersburg that was sent into orbit!

We are glad to announce that our massive collecting names programme ‘Send your name into space’ has finished. We thank everyone for participation and spreading information on social media. We are grateful to the Russian school students’ union and Irkutsk planetarium which draw attention to our project and contributed to the leadership of Irkutsk province in the number of registered participants.

To mark the 64^th anniversary of the first artificial satellite flight our company is today, the 4^th of October 2021, launching a unique new programme. Next year the CubeSats Geoscan 1U and Geoscan 3U will send the names of all those who wish to participate into Earth orbit.

Our company has launched a new development in the work — and now we are ready for space exploration! We are presenting you the Geoscan 1U and Geoscan 3U CubeSats.

The name is self-explanatory — the Geoscan 1U and Geoscan 3U CubeSats are in the shape of cube and rectangular parallelepiped with four or five solar panels. Remote sensing cameras, ship AIS receivers or small scientific instruments (GNSS receivers, cosmic ray detectors, instruments for biological experiments) can provide a useful payload.