Space instrumentation will be systematically developed at the university

Student, research and educational projects implemented at MIET in the field of space instrumentation will be systematized and combined into a single program. Industrial partners, MIET graduates and university administration showed great interest in participating in the program. The program will be presented in January 2023.

In August the MIET-AIS satellite was launched into the Earth's orbit, and today the university continues to work on using its payload functions, developing a signal receiving station and satellite control station, as well as organizing the launch of the second satellite next year.

Moreover, there are many other projects connected with satellite construction at MIET, for example, the development of a location finder, a satellite system for broadband Internet access based on digital antenna arrays etc. In addition, many schoolchildren attend classes in satellite construction at the Technology Park for youth "SMART-PARK".

“We decided to systematize all these activities and form a unified program aimed at developing the student ideas in the field of space instrumentation. The program should unite all projects within the interdisciplinary space research laboratory, thus ensuring interaction between lecturers, researchers, students and schoolchildren. We want to create a so-called "melting pot" to train qualified specialists”, – says Alexander Timoshenko, Associate Professor at the Chair of Telecommunication Systems.

Training specialists is one of the goals, because Roscosmos is planning to increase the manufacture of domestic satellites by 2026 to one satellite per day.

There are some other strategic goals of the program: career guidance for students and schoolchildren, higher public image of the university, increased number of students in research activities.

Interest in cooperation within the framework of the program has already been showed by MIET industrial partners. Among them there is JSC “Zavod PROTON” that is ready to offer various payload options for satellites for various purposes: Earth remote sensing satellites, laboratory satellites that explore various materials in space, communication satellites, navigation satellites, interplanetary and lunar satellites.

In the future, the MIET Satellite Construction Laboratory may join open international projects for data exchange with satellites. Also there are plans to establish data exchange with other participants in the launches of domestic satellites.