CubeSat

Last year, Geoscan, in collaboration with the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE), launched the SONIKS project dedicated to establishing a network of open ground stations in schools and additional educational organizations across Russia

On February 18, Geoscan-Edelveis, the first private CubeSat from St. Petersburg to venture into space, successfully concluded its mission and decayed, burning up in the Earth’s dense atmospheric layers.

StratoSat TK-1, the first satellite built by Geoscan for a client, blasted off into orbit from Vostochny Cosmodrome on June 27. The satellite went online as expected, and accomplished one of its key tasks, deploying six Stratonautica PicoSats

August 9 marks exactly one year since our first satellite, Geoscan-Edelveis, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on its journey to the orbit. To celebrate the anniversary, we have completed the flight test program and successfully trialed the cold gas thruster for CubeSats in outer space – the first achievement of this kind in the Russian history.

StratoSat TK-1, a small spacecraft with six picosats designed by Geoscan and Stratonavtika, was recently launched into space. On 11 July, at 9:40 (Moscow time) the container successfully opened, with mini-satellites going on their own flight.

On 27 June, at 14:34:49 (Moscow time) the launch vehicle Soyuz-2.1b and the Fregat upper stage blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Roskosmos acted as an organizer while its subsidiary Glavkosmos operated the launch of an additional payload.

June 9, 2023 marks a significant milestone for Geoscan-Edelveis: exactly 10 months have passed since the satellite’s launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on August 9 of the previous year. During this time, it has traversed an impressive distance of 200 million kilometers in Earth’s orbit!

It’s been almost nine months since our CubeSat entered the Earth’s orbit. Plenty of work has been completed in this period: we established communication with the satellite and received the first image of the Earth surface, successfully tested the stabilization mechanism and other on-board systems