MOSCOW, June 27 passing load along with the Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. 2-3 from the Vostochny cosmodrome, Roscosmos said on Tuesday.
«The associated payload, consisting of 39 Russian and three foreign spacecraft, was delivered to the target orbits and separated from the Fregat upper stage, which was launched today by a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Vostochny,» the message says.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with Fregat, on which Meteor-M and 42 small spacecraft, including three foreign ones, were installed, was launched from Vostochny at 14:34 Moscow time. Nine minutes and 24 seconds later, the Frigate separated from the third stage of the rocket. The upper stage turned on its propulsion system twice and delivered the Meteor-M into orbit about an hour after the launch of the rocket.
After that, Fregat performed two more engine starts and at about 17:08 Moscow time began to separate small spacecraft. It lasted about 40 minutes.
As it became known earlier from the relevant order of the government of the Russian Federation, among the small devices there are three foreign ones: the Arabic PHI-DEMO, the Malaysian A-SEANSAT-PG1 and the Belarusian BSUSat-2.
Russian small satellites are represented by three Earth remote sensing devices: SXC12-222 ZORKIY-2M, «Svyatobor-1», SXC12-2217 Vizard. Also, technological satellites were launched into orbit: eight SITRO-AIS, one CubeSX-HSE-3, one StratoSat TK-1, one Cubesat 3U, three Rassvet-1 satellites.
In addition, Fregat delivered into space the scientific satellites ARCCUBE-01, Nanozond-1, UmKA, SXC3-2220, ReshUCube-2, Sirius-SINP-3U, Polytech-Universe-3, UTMN-2 , Avion, NORBI-2, Impulse-1, SamSat-ION, Saturn, two Khors, two CSTP-1, two Yarilo, and three Monitor.< br />
Earlier, Alexander Khokhlov, head of the Geoscan company's small spacecraft project, said that thanks to the StratoSat-TK1 satellite, together with the Stratonavtika company, the technology of launching into orbit even smaller devices than nanosatellites, picosatellites, will be tested.
According to Roskosmos, in this way, taking into account the Meteor-M No. 2-3 hydrometeorological spacecraft (main load) launched into orbit, the simultaneous launch of 40 Russian satellites was a record in the history of Russian cosmonautics.
In addition, the state corporation explained that under the Universat program, the Avion apparatus for monitoring cosmic radiation, the Bauman satellites Yarilo No. 3 and No. 4 and Khors No. 1 and No. 2 were launched to measure solar energy reflected from surface of the Earth, and the study of galactic cosmic rays. Also, within the framework of this program, the Norby-2 satellite was sent into orbit to observe the solar corona, Impulse-1 for the purpose of experiments in the field of monitoring solar activity in the soft X-ray range, the SamSat-ION satellite to study the parameters of the upper ionosphere, plasma and of the Earth's magnetic field and the Saturn apparatus for monitoring space weather in near-Earth outer space.
A number of satellites have been launched for the Space-Pi project for the professional self-determination and creativity of children and youth. Among them are the ArcCube-01 satellite for experiments on organizing a secure data transmission channel, Cube-SX-HSE-3 for receiving signals from automatic identification system transmitters installed on ships, Monitor satellites for observing space flares in X-ray and gamma-ray radiation, the apparatus «Svyatobor-1» for remote sensing of the Earth using thermal imaging and photographic equipment, «Nanozond-1», which will investigate the influence of near-Earth space on the surface of the spacecraft, as well as the Vizard-meteo satellite for monitoring the formation of dangerous meteorological phenomena in the atmosphere on north.
Also, within the framework of the Space-Pi project, the UmKA-1 satellite was sent into space to observe the sky using an optical telescope, the KuzGTU-1 satellite to study the vibrothermal response of the body in space flight conditions, and the ReshUCube-2 apparatus to experiment with promising protocols communications, Sirius-SINP-3U for monitoring charged particles in low Earth orbit, the Polytech Universe-3 satellite for creating a three-dimensional non-stationary model of the distribution of the level of electromagnetic radiation near the Earth, UTMN-2 for the purpose of diagnosing the troposphere and water bodies, as well as the Akhmat -1″ (CubeSat 3U) for aircraft location monitoring.
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"In the interests of the company "Special Technology Center" two satellites of the 3U CubeSat format (CSTP-1.1 and CSTP-1.2) were delivered into space with the task of measuring the levels of electromagnetic radiation in a wide frequency range to study the issues of radio wave propagation depending on solar activity and other factors of space weather,» added Roscosmos ;.
In addition, three communications spacecraft were launched for Bureau 1440 as part of the Rassvet-1 mission.
The press service of the Chechen State University said that the Akhmat-1 satellite was assembled by specialists from this university together with colleagues from Yugo -Western State University.
«Teams of scientists from two universities have been assembling the satellite for a year in the SWSU Small Spacecraft Refinement Laboratory. It was opened at the university thanks to the Priority 2030 strategic academic leadership program,» ChSU University said.
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«This satellite is the result of <…>'s victory in the «Planet Officer» contest held by the Innovation Promotion Foundation. This year, the university has pleased with another victory in the contest and is starting to develop a second satellite, which will be launched at the beginning of 2024,” the press service added.