2nd International space conference in Lithuania

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2nd International space conference in Lithuania
Space Economy in the Multipolar World
(SEMWO-2011) Samara Space Centre
Feasibility of launching CubeSat small satellites
in the Earth orbit
Head of foreign economic division, Candidate of
Economics A. V. SIDORENKO Doctor of
Engineering, professor I.V. BELOKONOV
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Samara Space Centre

• - The leading enterprise and the worlds
  pre-eminent designer and operator of the
  middle-class launch vehicles, the Earth remote
  sensing space systems and unmanned satellites for
  application research.
• - Possesses rich experience of participation in
  large-scale international projects on development
  of outer space for peaceful purposes.

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Areas of international cooperation
1. Provision of launch services of satellites
designed by foreign companies.
2. Building of satellites accommodating joint
fundamental or applied experiments to be
conducted under microgracity conditions in the
sphere of material study, biology and medicine.
3. Building of the Earth remote sensing
satellites and accommodation of the foreign
payload on them for its long-term operation in
orbit.
4. Exchange of data acquired by the Earth remote
sensing satellites.
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Launch of CubeSat small satellites

• Launch options
• As piggyback payload on satellites designed by
  the Samara Space Center.
• By Soyuz carrier orbital stage.

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CubeSat piggyback payload on BION-M satellite
Orbital parameters Apogee 575 ?? Perigee
290 ?? Inclination 64,9 The launch is set for
August 2012
Layout of CubeSat containers
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CubSat launch in the Earth orbit with Soyuz-1
carrier
Orbital parameters Near-circular ?nc 300
km inclination i between 51,8º and 98º
Small satellite basic requirements 1.
Permissible total mass of small satellite H/W
(including container) is 20kg maximum. 2. Small
satellite separation speed is between 0,1 and 0,6
m/s. 3. Thermal environment around small
satellite fixed on the intermediate bay - at
launch from minus40 to 50? - in-flight
from 40 to 100?.
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CubSat launch in the Earth orbit with the Volga
Upper Stage

• Multi-purpose platform to accommodate of ?ubSAT
  satellites, which supports
• Housing of containers (unified launch adapters),
• Small satellite separation,
• Monitoring of separation .

Orbital parameters Altitude from 500km to
1500km Inclination from from51,8to 98.
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AIST small satellite

• Key specifications
• Dimensions 620?520?485 mm
• Mass of the small satellite with adapter 60 kg.
• Orbital life 3 years maximum
• Initial parameters of the operating orbit
• near-circular ?nc 575 km
• inclination j 64,9
• The small satellite is in non-controlled flight

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Thank you for your attention
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