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July 5 marks the 4th anniversary of the launch of the Amur State University AMGU-1 nanosatellite (AMURSAT). In 2019, the small spacecraft was launched into orbit from the Vostochny cosmodrome.
AMGU-1 (AMURSAT) is the first university satellite for the Far East — before it, 9 Russian universities launched their own small aircrafts. The satellite became a passing load to the Meteor-M ("Метеор-М"), the Earth remote sensing spacecraft No. 2-2. The Amur State University developed the satellite in partnership with the Skobeltsyn Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University.
AMGU-1 (AMURSAT) is a small spacecraft of the 3U CubeSat format. Its dimensions are 10x10x34 cm, and its weight is 3 kilograms. A device of AmSU's own design, Photon-Amur ("Фотон-Амур"), is installed on the satellite. The device allowed the university team to test solar panels with elements made of barium disilicide — these ultrathin films were formed in the AmSU Tsiolkovsky laboratory of Surface Physics of the Scientific and Educational Center. Also, AMGU-1 (AMURSAT) is equipped with a charged particle detector "DeCor" ("ДеКор") developed by the Moscow State University Research Institute of Nuclear Physics and a component validator of the ADS-B receiver.
The AmSU satellite still continues to transmit telemetry to Earth. In addition, with the help of this small spacecraft, researchers were able to obtain data on space weather in near-Earth orbits.
At the moment, the period of the Earth's flyby by the AMGU-1 satellite (AMURSAT) is 93.9 minutes. The highest flight altitude (Apogee) is 482.6 km, the lowest (Perigee) is 466.3 km. On July 5, at 14:41 (this is when the satellite was launched from Vostochny in 2019), the satellite will make its 22130 orbit and be over the Amur region.
AMGU-1 (AMURSAT) is the first university satellite for the Far East — before it, 9 Russian universities launched their own small aircrafts. The satellite became a passing load to the Meteor-M ("Метеор-М"), the Earth remote sensing spacecraft No. 2-2. The Amur State University developed the satellite in partnership with the Skobeltsyn Scientific Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University.
AMGU-1 (AMURSAT) is a small spacecraft of the 3U CubeSat format. Its dimensions are 10x10x34 cm, and its weight is 3 kilograms. A device of AmSU's own design, Photon-Amur ("Фотон-Амур"), is installed on the satellite. The device allowed the university team to test solar panels with elements made of barium disilicide — these ultrathin films were formed in the AmSU Tsiolkovsky laboratory of Surface Physics of the Scientific and Educational Center. Also, AMGU-1 (AMURSAT) is equipped with a charged particle detector "DeCor" ("ДеКор") developed by the Moscow State University Research Institute of Nuclear Physics and a component validator of the ADS-B receiver.
The AmSU satellite still continues to transmit telemetry to Earth. In addition, with the help of this small spacecraft, researchers were able to obtain data on space weather in near-Earth orbits.
At the moment, the period of the Earth's flyby by the AMGU-1 satellite (AMURSAT) is 93.9 minutes. The highest flight altitude (Apogee) is 482.6 km, the lowest (Perigee) is 466.3 km. On July 5, at 14:41 (this is when the satellite was launched from Vostochny in 2019), the satellite will make its 22130 orbit and be over the Amur region.