Summer Space School-2025: "Space Communications" Section

The annual Summer Space School is a unique platform where space industry experts share knowledge with enthusiastic participants. Over nine days, attendees immerse themselves in the world of space through lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities, culminating in the application of their newly acquired skills.

This year, Dmitry Pashkov, a developer of space systems and researcher at the Radiation Monitoring Laboratory, led the "Space Communications" section.

Participants built their own antennas and successfully received signals from meteorological and experimental satellites—NOAA, METEOR, and Monitor-4—diving into the world of practical space communications.

Under the instructor’s guidance, students:

📡 Assembled functional antennas from scratch, learning the principles of radio signal reception;

🛰️ Tracked and decoded live satellite data in real time;

📊 Analyzed telemetry, gaining insight into how information is transmitted from space to Earth.

Through this experience, participants saw firsthand the technology behind weather forecasting, satellite communications, and scientific research.

"When my antenna first picked up a satellite signal, I realized: space isn’t some distant place—it’s right here above us," shared one participant.

Summer Space School 2025 proved once again that touching the cosmos doesn’t require millions—just curiosity and a soldering iron. 🚀✨