One more KuzSTU satellite is going into space this year

In 2022, the Kuzbass State Technical University launched the first Kuzbass-300 satellite into space. It was the first of a whole series of aircrafts that the Kuzbass Polytechnic University is working on, and this year it is planned to launch the next satellite "KuzSTU-1".

The specific feature of satellite "Kuzbass-300" was its "stuffing" which included festive media files dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Kuzbass, and its main purpose was environmental monitoring of the territories. The payload of "KuzSTU-1" is designed to study mechanical vibrations in weightlessness at different loads of structural elements. Both university professors and students are working on the development of the nanosatellite. Alexander Grigoriev, Associate Professor of the Department of Electric Drive and Automation of the Institute of Power Engineering, Candidate of Technical Sciences, and Olesya Ivashkina, a student of the Institute of Power Engineering, are among them.  

We designed and soldered the satellite payload control board, in particular, Olesya Ivashkina was directly involved in soldering. This time the task of the payload is to study mechanical oscillations in weightlessness with different loads of structural elements. For this purpose, the satellite is equipped with a load on springs, three vibration sensors and two vibration drives, the spring tension can be changed using a servo drive, - says Alexander Grigoriev.

In addition, the KuzSTU-1 nanosatellite will enable the scientists to work out some tasks within the framework of the Multilevel Dynamic Simulation (MDM) project, where KuzSTU-1 will become a kind of simplified model: in the MDM project, researchers aim to study oscillations in the compartments of space stations which have their own design and more complex parameters.