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The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle is due to be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on November 5. It will send the first Russian-Chinese university satellite DRUZHBA-ATURK into space.
The spacecraft has been under development for several years as part of the China- Russia space cooperation programme for 2023-2027. The first joint satellite of Russia and China was designed by students of the Harbin Institute of Technology and the Amur State University.
The 12U CubeSat standard satellite will be sent into orbit. Each unit is a cube with a side of 10 cm. The main payload on it is a high-resolution camera and the Photon-Amur module.
The high-resolution camera is a development of the Harbin Institute of Technology. From a distance of 500 kilometres above the Earth, it can capture a detailed area of 2.5 metres.
The AmSU has developed the Photon-Amur module, which allows to study the impact of space factors on the operation of photovoltaic converters. The uniqueness of this module is that the material for photovoltaic converters (nanofilms) was obtained by young scientists of the Amur State University in the Laboratory of Surface Physics of the K. E. Tsiolkovsky Research and Education Centre.
"Photovoltaic converters are an integral part of any solar panel. The efficiency of the panel depends largely on the material from which the photovoltaic converters are made. We plan to use our development in space. Currently, solar panels based on gallium arsenide compounds are used in space in low-Earth orbits. They have high efficiency, but they are expensive. Our material, if it is successfully tested, will significantly reduce satellite production costs," explained Dmitry Fomin, Director of the K. E. Tsiolkovsky Research and Education Centre.
The spacecraft has been under development for several years as part of the China- Russia space cooperation programme for 2023-2027. The first joint satellite of Russia and China was designed by students of the Harbin Institute of Technology and the Amur State University.
The 12U CubeSat standard satellite will be sent into orbit. Each unit is a cube with a side of 10 cm. The main payload on it is a high-resolution camera and the Photon-Amur module.
The high-resolution camera is a development of the Harbin Institute of Technology. From a distance of 500 kilometres above the Earth, it can capture a detailed area of 2.5 metres.
The AmSU has developed the Photon-Amur module, which allows to study the impact of space factors on the operation of photovoltaic converters. The uniqueness of this module is that the material for photovoltaic converters (nanofilms) was obtained by young scientists of the Amur State University in the Laboratory of Surface Physics of the K. E. Tsiolkovsky Research and Education Centre.
"Photovoltaic converters are an integral part of any solar panel. The efficiency of the panel depends largely on the material from which the photovoltaic converters are made. We plan to use our development in space. Currently, solar panels based on gallium arsenide compounds are used in space in low-Earth orbits. They have high efficiency, but they are expensive. Our material, if it is successfully tested, will significantly reduce satellite production costs," explained Dmitry Fomin, Director of the K. E. Tsiolkovsky Research and Education Centre.
