CubeSat

Two weeks have passed since our satellite Geoscan-Edelveis went into orbit. On the first day of its flight our team established communication with it, sent signals in order to collect information from the sensors, and received the answers. The spacecraft is in orbit inclined at 97° at the altitude of 458х494 km and works within the amateur radio range at 436,2 MHz (its call sign is RS20S).

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. The simultaneous launch of 16 Russian satellites broke a record in the history of the Russian rocket and space industry.

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.