The director of Sputnix spoke about the creation of Russian spacecraft
- Новости
- Science and technology
- The director of Sputnix spoke about the creation of Russian spacecraft
Sputnix is a company that created Russia's first private space satellite 10 years ago. To date, the number of devices designed by its employees has exceeded one hundred, 80 of them are in space orbit. As Anatoly Kopik, its commercial director, told Izvestia, the specifics of Sputnix are small and ultra—small spacecraft.
"Their design and production is an extremely difficult task. You need to pack all the construction materials and heavy-duty equipment into a small box. The weight of our models ranges from 2-3 to several tens of kilograms, the maximum is 200 kg. The cost of production of 1 kg of machinery is $5-10 thousand. The advantages of this compactness are lower launch costs and a large number of one—time launches. Launching into orbit is carried out using Soyuz and Angara family rockets. The working time in space is 3-5 years," he explained.
Sputnix has developed several types of unified platforms, on the basis of which devices for various purposes are assembled fairly quickly. Their tasks include remote sensing of the Earth's surface, climate change, forests, agricultural lands, and urban development.
An interesting option is marine monitoring, when the LCD screen displays a picture of the movement of almost all ships in the World's oceans. Tankers, dry cargo ships, fishing vessels are marked in different colors, it is noted who is going and where, the port of registry is indicated, the signal is indicated by special beacons on board. This picture allows you to track and evaluate fishing in various zones, helps to build safe routes, and identify violations of territorial waters. It is noteworthy that until 2022, foreign satellites were used in Russia for these purposes, and now ours.
Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article:
Flight of meaning: how will Russian civilian drones develop?
Переведено сервисом «Яндекс Переводчик»
