The Gagarinets satellite has its own history. The real one, just small. Experts know: despite their small dimensions, modern spacecraft of this class
are distinguished by great functionality: they can install almost all on-board systems inherent in “heavyweights”. Therefore, the scope of
application is the widest - from educational programs to space observations.
The Skolkovo resident company has developed a completely unique technology - visual transmission of information from space using lasers on a
spacecraft.
“The technological solution consists of a satellite with an electric rocket engine, a laser projection system from space, a spacecraft orientation
and stabilization system, as well as its own control algorithms,” said team leader Anton Ossovsky then.
The goal of the project is to create a satellite system for projecting images on the night sky. To put it very simply, satellites launched into an
orbit at an altitude of about 600 km will not only shine, but also transmit binary code using flickering lasers.
“The two test satellites will not form any image, but will simply glow like the two brightest stars in the night sky,” the scientists say. —
This is a polishing of technology. How bright the constellation should be, the correct location of the satellites, the accuracy of the orientation.
The next stage is the launch of the entire satellite system.
In three years, having served their purpose, the devices will burn up in the layers of the earth’s atmosphere. No space debris.
Technically this is a very complex project. No one has ever done this before.
“Technically complex, but solvable,” the inventors are convinced. And most importantly, new technology expands the boundaries of what is
possible.
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