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TOMSK, Dec 23 – RIA Tomsk, Karina Sapunova.
Specialists of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) gave a copy of the satellite
created in higher education institution which is now on the International Space
Station (ISS) to the city of Korolev (Moscow region) that astronauts learn to
launch similar devices into an orbit with it help, the director of the
Institute of Nondestructive Control of TPU Valery Borikov reported to RIA
Tomsk.
Earlier it was reported that the TPU nanosatellite
manufactured to the 120 anniversary of the higher education institution was
delivered to the ISS in the spring. It is planned to be let out for the orbit
at the first exit of crew of the ISS in the outer space – in 2017. It was
reported also that the scientists intend to start a whole "swarm" of
such devices which could work at the orbit together in the future.
"We had a double of the TPU-120 satellite at the
university, and we turned it on, accepted telemetry – what temperature, what
speed, what positioning. We worked it out with the double. Now we sent it to
the city of Korolev, and trainings on launch of the device into space will be
hold there", – Borikov told.
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He explained that any spacecraft is manufactured not
in one copy – it allows to understand the reasons of malfunctions, for example.
In this case the double will be used for working off of start of the
nanosatellite from the ISS board – it needs to be made manually.
The interlocutor of the agency added that the
satellite was used for training of polytechnics before. Thanks to the fact that
they could take readings from it through the training center of management of
flights (CMF) students got a work experience with the device and are able to
accept a signal from the device which will appear in the orbit in 2017.
According to Borikov, the students practicing in CMF
try to contact the ISS and to participate in profile projects in case of each
opportunity. For example, recently polytechnics participated in an experiment
of Energia Rocket and Space Corporation and Moscow Aviation Institute and
received the color image from the board of the space station successfully.