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Smallsat of the «MSU-STANDARD» company for the ionosphere studies
Spacecraft of the Podolsk school № 29 with a telescope on board
SC name | UmKA-1 |
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NORAD ID | 57172 |
Number in the Register | 3672-2023-009 |
Call sign | RS40S |
Frequencies | 437,625 MHz, 435,825 MHz |
Format | 3U |
Weight | 4 kg |
Payload | high-power telescope «Leptonar-20955K» and astronomical digital camera PlayerOne Saturn-C SQR |
Mission | Photoshooting deep space objects |
Platform | SPUTNIX LLC |
Launch date | 27.06.23, the Vostochny cosmodrome |
Launch vehicle | LV «Soyuz-2.1b» with US «Fregat» |
Status | Active |
The UmKA-1 satellite was created by the team of the Center for Scientific Creativity, Podolsk School № 29, as part of the School Space Telescope project. SC was disegned on the basis of the OrbiCraft-Pro platform of the Sputnix company.
The elements of the payload are the high-power telescope "Leptonar-20955K" and the astronomical digital camera PlayerOne Saturn-C SQR. Before placing them in the satellite body, the project participants took pictures of the constellation Cygnus, as well as the Andromeda nebula.