In July, the ninth scientific and technical program "Big Challenges" took place at the Sirius Education Center in Sochi. More than 400 school students from almost all regions of Russia participated in the event. The participants worked on the topic of "Space Technologies".
One of the projects involved the development of a “position-sensitive radiation detector” for small CubeSat satellites at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Under the supervision of specialists, students created a prototype of the position-sensitive detector, which will measure cosmic radiation of different types.
Work on the detector will continue following the completion of the “Big Challenges” program. The device will undergo further development and will be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome aboard the Scorpion CubeSat 16U satellite tentatively in late 2024 or early 2025. This spacecraft is designed to investigate the radiation background in a polar orbit, which is where the planned launch of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will take place.
The participants of the shift also took part in other large-scale experiments conducted by the SINP MSU whose primary objective is to develop a dynamic model for the near-earth radiation environment in various orbits. This work is linked to the small Altair spacecraft operated by the SINP MSU. The payload of the Altair spacecraft consists of several instruments, including the DeCoR-3 and DeCoR-2 (Cosmic Radiation Detector), the Universal Semiconductor Spectrometer, and the MADIZ (Matrix Radiation Detector).
Read more in Sirius.
One of the projects involved the development of a “position-sensitive radiation detector” for small CubeSat satellites at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Under the supervision of specialists, students created a prototype of the position-sensitive detector, which will measure cosmic radiation of different types.
Work on the detector will continue following the completion of the “Big Challenges” program. The device will undergo further development and will be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome aboard the Scorpion CubeSat 16U satellite tentatively in late 2024 or early 2025. This spacecraft is designed to investigate the radiation background in a polar orbit, which is where the planned launch of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will take place.
The participants of the shift also took part in other large-scale experiments conducted by the SINP MSU whose primary objective is to develop a dynamic model for the near-earth radiation environment in various orbits. This work is linked to the small Altair spacecraft operated by the SINP MSU. The payload of the Altair spacecraft consists of several instruments, including the DeCoR-3 and DeCoR-2 (Cosmic Radiation Detector), the Universal Semiconductor Spectrometer, and the MADIZ (Matrix Radiation Detector).
Read more in Sirius.
