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MATERIALS PORTAL "RUSSIAN

SCIENCE"
March 31, 2016, 16:50

Russian scientists launch space "swarm" of small satellites

CubeSat
The cargo ship "Progress SM-OM" will be launched
from the cosmodrome "Baikonur" March 31, 2016.
On board the ship is the first small spacecraft
CubeSat - mini-satellite, built using 3D additive
technologies and a multi-level dynamic simulation.
The main objective of the first satellite - to see how
these technologies will work in space. Russian
scientists and cosmonauts dedicated its launch the
100th anniversary of Tomsk Polytechnic University.
It will focus on the communication systems, including
for future groups of small robotic spacecraft weighing
from 1.5 to 20 kg, which can work together in space.
Together this group of mini-satellites will carry out a
number of important research problems that are
much more efficient than launching a large satellite
service life of 15 years. Satellites can not only
complement and help each other in scientific research, but to repair each other in orbit. Devices equipped with
manipulators, like the legs of a spider, and in the event of failure of one of the satellites it will be captured by these
manipulators and renovated. Thus, the reliability of the entire group will increase many times.

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