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TOMSK, May
10 – RIA Tomsk. The satellite of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) launched to
the 120th anniversary of the university will transmit a signal with greeting
from Tomsk students on Tuesday and Wednesday, all radio amateurs will be able
to catch it, the director of Institute of High Technology Physics TPU Alexey
Yakovlev told RIA Tomsk.
Earlier it
was reported that on 3d April the ship "Progress of MS-02" delivered
to the International Space Station (ISS) the nanosatellite (30 on 11 and 11
centimeters) which was made in honor of the 120 anniversary of TPU. It is the
first Russian spacecraft created with use 3D – technologies. During the next
extravehicular activity astronauts of ISS will start it from an external
surface of station.
"Our
satellite was already loaded on ISS. Then it was necessary to prepare station
for broadcast of a signal. Broadcasting will be on approximately in 9 o'clock
in the morning on May 10. It means that from ISS the signal congratulation from
polytechnicians will be transferred. It is possible to hear a signal on May 10
and 11", – Yakovlev has told.
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Broadcasting
will go on all the time, in Tomsk, according to calculations of
polytechnicians, the signal can be caught on May 10 at 23.55 – 24.05 GMT (that
is 5.55 – 6.05 on May 11 on Tomsk time), on May 11 at 1.31 – 1.41 and 3.07 –
3.16 GMT (that is 7.31 – 7.41 and 9.07 – 9.16 on Tomsk time). Yakovlev has
specified that radio amateurs can catch a signal at frequencies of 437,025 MHz
and 145,8 MHz.
"The
satellite has to be charged for a start. After that the satellite will be
connected to the ISS antenna and turned it on, that it begin to transfer
information. Now it is working off of operating modes on ISS. As soon as there
is the following spacewalk, it has to be loaded, it will be released – it will
be recharged further on solar batteries", – Yakovlev added.
Earlier it
was also reported that various sensors of the satellite will fix temperature
onboard, on boards and batteries, parameters of electronic components. These
data will be transferred to the Earth in real time. On them scientists will be
able to analyze a condition of materials and to solve whether they will be applied
at construction of spacecrafts in the future.