Sputnix

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.

Sputnix
IndustryCommercial spaceflight[1]
Founded2011
Headquarters
Moscow, Skolkovo, 42
,
Russia
Key people
Vladislav Ivanenko (CEO)
Websitesputnix.ru

History

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 Russian 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] and SiriusSat-2[15] were created with the OrbiСraft-Pro platform, and launched from the International Space Station on August 15, 2018.[16][17][18][19]

Main activities

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

Sputnix is known as an experienced producer and exporter in the space field[22]. The company provides solutions 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
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
Planned missions
NRU HSE - DZZ 3,5 2020 Ed-Scientific sat
Sirius-DZZ 3,5 2020 Ed-Scientific sat
Zorkiy 8 2020 RS
SiriusSat-3 1,45 2020-2021 Ed-Scientific sat

References
  1. "License for space activities" (PDF).
  2. "Геоинформационный портал ГИС-Ассоциации - About GIS-Association". www.gisa.ru.
  3. "(PDF) The academic Chibis-M microsatellite". ResearchGate.
  4. "(PDF) 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.
  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.
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