PolyITAN-1 - the first Ukrainian nanosatellite in orbit

On the night of June 20, the first Ukrainian nanosatellite PolyITAN-1 , created in the KPI, was launched into Earth orbit. Nanosatellites are a class of small artificial Earth satellites , the creation of which was made possible by the development of micromitiaturization and nanotechnology. Now they are increasingly used for various studies, explains the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science. The NTUU KPI created the Cubesat format nano-satellite, weighing about 1 kg and measuring 10x10x10cm.

It consists of 4 modules-subsystems: energy supply module, radio module, control module and payload module. The satellite was created by a team of young scientists and engineers of the heat-and-power engineering and radio engineering faculties, the faculty of electronics, and the Institute of Telecommunication Systems of the NTUU KPI under the supervision of Ph.D. Boris Rassamakin. All modules created during the creation of this device can be used for a whole series of other satellites. In an interview with Filegiver, Vice-Rector of NTUU KPI, Mikhail Ilchenko, named a number of tasks that the launch of the PolyITAN-1 satellite should solve:

• development of technological flight modes;
• the creation and study of solar sensors for small spacecraft;
• energy testing developed at the University of solar power sources;
• adaptation to the conditions of space and improvement for future flights of digital information transmission channels from satellite to Earth and vehicle control commands;
• studies of the influence of outer space on the work of the satellite electronic subsystems;
• study of the operation of GPS systems of the original design.

To track the flight of the device and conduct planned research, a center with the necessary test equipment was created at the university. The results obtained during the flight, young scientists will use including for the design of new designs of small satellites, the development of which is provided for by agreements signed by NTUU KPI with other universities. Actually, this launch was also implemented within the framework of international cooperation of the KPI from a university of third countries: after the presentation of the nanosatellite engineering model at the Kalman Institute (Belgium), Kiev polytechnics were invited to participate in the QB50 International project .

On June 19, 33 satellites launched by scientists from 17 countries of the world were launched into space, and among them is a platform with launch containers QuadPack developed by ISIS, in which university nanosatellites were deployed. The nanosatellite KPI PolyITAN-1 was deployed along with satellites from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Israel, Singapore and the United States. This device was launched into space by the Dnepr launch vehicle from the Yasny launch base at 11:11 pm local time. 16 minutes after the start
all of them successfully separated from the third stage and reached the specified orbits.
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Additionally:
1. Blog team PolyITAN-1
2. Experimental modeling of the thermal regimes of the PolyITAN-1 nanosatellite (PDF)
3. How to take PolyITAN-1 telemetry