< br />MOSCOW, August 7 The launch of the next satellite, developed by students of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Yarilo-5, may take place at the end of 2024, the device will be larger than previously launched satellites, said the rector of Bauman Moscow State Technical University Mikhail Gordin.
“It depends on the results of the experiments and further work with customers. We had a mock-up of Yarilo-5, but we need to find money for it and an appropriate customer. We are working on it. In theory, Yarilo-5 can be launched at the end of next year «So, according to the schedule. It is clear that if there is money and serious customers, something can be done earlier, the production cycle of such a satellite is not very long. The main thing is that there is a task,» Gordin told the agency. He clarified that the satellite is likely to be quite large — it will be assembled from 12-16 units.
In addition, now the university, together with Roskosmos, is discussing the possibility of organizing mass production of such devices at one of the industry's enterprises. The series is needed in order to be able to create and launch into orbit not one satellite, but a full-fledged constellation. Such a grouping, according to Gordin, can perform the tasks of remote sensing of the Earth from space. The Yarilo-5 will test a Fourier spectrometer for analyzing carbon dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. Similar devices can be created to monitor methane leaks, he said.
Earlier, the rector told reporters that the university plans to produce an unusually large nanosatellite — a 16U cubesat (that is, assembled from 16 units — blocks measuring 10 by 10 by 10 centimeters, of which there are several in conventional nanosatellites).
The first two nanosatellites «Yarilo» No. 1 and «Yarilo» No. 2, created by students of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, were launched into orbit on September 28, 2020 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket. Satellites «Yarilo» No. 3 and No. 4 and «Khors» No. 1 and No. 2, also developed by students of Baumanka, were launched into orbit on June 27, 2023 as a passing load during the launch of the Meteor-M apparatus No. 2-3 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Yarilo cubesats are designed to measure solar energy reflected from the Earth's surface (Earth's albedo) and to measure the Earth's magnetic field along three axes. Khors satellites No. 1 and No. 2 are designed to study galactic cosmic rays, as well as to demonstrate the operation of a high-frequency plasma propulsion system.