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Just after three months since its launch, the first Russian-Chinese satellite designed by young scientists from the Amur State University and the Harbin Institute of Technology has already made more than 1,000 revolutions around the Earth.

The first Student Mission Control Centre in the Far East receives telemetry data from the spacecraft: location, battery status, internal systems, electrical parameters and much more.
"It's a large amount of data that is difficult to process manually, so a programme was developed to systematise and store all the information transmitted from the satellite in a convenient format. Based on the collected data, it will be possible to analyse the patterns and features of the satellite's operation," explained Evgeny Zubko, a student of the Institute of Computer and Engineering Sciences of the Amur State University.

Chinese specialists are calibrating a high-resolution camera for remote sensing of the Earth (from a distance of 500 kilometres above the Earth, it can capture a detailed area of 2.5 metres). When the calibration is completed, the payload developed by Russian scientists, the Foton-Amur module, which allows studying the impact of space factors on the operation of photovoltaic converters, will start operating.