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Sputnix (Russian: спутникс, also спутниковые инновационные космические системы, “Satellite Innovative Space Systems”) is a privately-owned satellite construction company headquartered at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. It is one of Russia’s first private space companies. It was founded in 2011 by ScanEx.

History[edit]

Sputnix was established in 2011 by the ScanEx satellite technology department, which developed the orientation and stabilization system of the Chibis-M microsatellite by order of the Russian Space Research Institute.[2][3][4] It is based at the Skolkovo Innovation Center.[5][6]

Since 2012, Sputnix has been creating satellite platforms and service systems for microsatellites and nanosatellites. In 2013, Sputnix received a license from the Russian Federal Space Agency to carry out space activities and began to create a microsatellite-technology demonstrator TabletSat-Aurora.

On June 19, 2014, the first privately-owned Russian microsatellite, Tabletsat-Aurora, was launched into a Low Earth orbit on a Ukrainian launch vehicle Dnepr rocket[7][8] implementing a contract between Sputnix and ISC Kosmotras.[9][10][11][12][13] In 2017, Sputnix developed the Orbiсraft-Pro satellite platform based on the international CubeSat standard. The OrbiСraft-Pro platform is a design kit that allows the assembly of various configurations of nanosatellites with different payloads. The scientific and educational satellites SiriusSat-1[14] (COSPAR 1998-067PG; decayed from orbit 9 December 2020) and SiriusSat-2[15] (COSPAR 1998-067PH; decayed from orbit 9 December 2020) were created with the OrbiСraft-Pro platform, and launched from the International Space Station on August 15, 2018.[16][17][18][19]

Main activities[edit]

Sputnix develops orientation and stabilization systems and other service systems for microsatellites and CubeSat satellites; microsatellite and CubeSat platforms, allowing the quick creation of satellites for technological, scientific and educational experiments; equipment and software for ground communication stations; attitude determination and control system (ADCS) test benches for research of small satellites dynamics in the simulated space environment of zero gravity, homogenous unsteady magnetic field, sunlight, sky of stars; and equipment for aerospace education.[20][21]

International activity[edit]

Sputnix is known as an experienced producer and exporter in the space field.[22] The company provides solutions[buzzword] for educational aerospace laboratories and aerospace education for schools and universities. Sputnix delivers satellite functional kits, data receiving ground stations, space environment simulators and equipment, accompanied by educational materials.

Satellites[edit]

Name Weight, kg Launch date Launch vehicle Purpose
Chibis-М 34,4 25.01.2012 Progress M-13M Scientific sat
TabletSat-Aurora 26 19.06.2014 Dnepr rocket RS
Al Farabi-1 2 15.02.2017 PSLV-C37 Ed-Tech sat, RS
SiriusSat-1 1,45 15.08.2018 Progress MS-09 Ed-Scientific sat
SiriusSat-2 1,45 15.08.2018 Progress MS-09 Ed-Scientific sat
NRU HSE – DZZ 3,5 22.03.2021 Soyuz rocket Ed-Scientific sat
Sirius-DZZ 3,5 Ed-Scientific sat
OrbiCraft-Zorkiy 8 RS
KSU-CubeSat 1,1 Ed-Scientific sat
ChallengeOne 2,1 Ed-Scientific sat
«SXC3-214-MIET-AIS» 4 09.08.2022 Soyuz rocket Ed-Scientific sat
«SXC3-219 ISOI» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«SXC3-2110 Voenmeh» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«SXC3-217 Siren» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«SXC3-215 Vizard» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«CubeSX-HSE-2» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«SXC3-218 KuzSTU» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«ReshUCube-1» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«UTMN» 4 Ed-Scientific sat
«Monitor-1» 4 Ed-Scientific sat

References[edit]

  1. ^ “License for space activities” (PDF).
  2. ^ “Геоинформационный портал ГИС-Ассоциации – About GIS-Association”. www.gisa.ru.
  3. ^ “The academic Chibis-M microsatellite”. ResearchGate.
  4. ^ “The Study of Electromagnetic Parameters of Space Weather, Micro-Satellite “Chibis-M”“. ResearchGate.
  5. ^ “The certificate of residence in Skolkovo” (PDF).
  6. ^ “Six Skolkovo startups reaching for the stars”. sk.ru.
  7. ^ “SPUTNIX has launched the first Russian private Earth remote sensing satellite”. sk.ru.
  8. ^ “TabletSat-Aurora”. space.skyrocket.de.
  9. ^ “The First Launches Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing”. Daily Satellite News. Satnews Publishers.
  10. ^ “SPUTNIX has Launched the First Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite”. www.spaceref.com. 20 June 2014.
  11. ^ “SPUTNIX launches Russia’s first private Earth remote sensing satellite”. June 22, 2014.
  12. ^ “Russian private satellite transmits first stable signal to Earth”. TASS.
  13. ^ Bodner, Matthew (June 20, 2014). “Russia Joins the ‘New Space Economy’ with Launch of First Private Satellites”. The Moscow Times.
  14. ^ “SatNOGS DB – 43595 – SiriusSat-1”. db.satnogs.org.
  15. ^ “SiriusSat 1, 2”. space.skyrocket.de.
  16. ^ “How to launch satellites by hand”. August 15, 2018 – via YouTube.
  17. ^ “Sputnix satellites launched by cosmonauts during spacewalk”. sk.ru.
  18. ^ “Russian SiriusSat CubeSats to be deployed during spacewalk”. June 1, 2018.
  19. ^ “Four Russian satellites to be deployed during ISS spacewalk”. August 8, 2018.
  20. ^ Zubacheva, Ksenia (April 25, 2019). “5 Russian space companies that could one day compete with SpaceX”. www.rbth.com.
  21. ^ “Sputnix: manufactures components for small satellites, cubesat platforms aerospace and education equipment”. European Space Agency.
  22. ^ Jameson, Helen (2019-06-26). “Telnet, Sputnix and GK Launch to Cooperate on Manufacture and Launch of Small Satellites”. SpaceWatch.Global. Retrieved 2020-07-28.