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Today at 8:32 am, the AMGU-1 satellite (AMURSAT) began its 10,000 circuit around the Earth. In a whole day, AMURSAT makes 15 circles around the planet. It takes 95.1 minutes for one circle The highest altitude of the satellite above the Earth (Apogee) is 548.1 km, and the lowest (Perigee) is – 520,3 km.

In the radio visibility zone above Blagoveshchensk, the satellite of the Amur State University appeared on a 10002 circuit.

- Of course, we will not be able to see a small satellite with a size of 3U at an altitude of more than 500 km, but we can receive information from satellite in the Amur Mission Control Center of AmSU. For instance, on April 12-15, schoolchildren of Blagoveshchensk tried to receive a satellite signal at the Mission Control Center, "said German Lebedev, an engineer of the Amur Mission Control Center.

The AMGU-1 satellite (AMURSAT) was created by representatives of AmSU in partnership with the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University. The device is a three-unit CubeSat and weighs about 3 kg. The satellite is equipped with a device of its own development by AmSU "Photon-Amur," a “DeKor” charge-particle detector developed by the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University and a technological demonstrator of the AZN-V receiver.

The launch of AMGU-1 satellite (AMURSAT) was carried out from the Vostochny spaceport on July 5, 2019 at 14:41 local time.