239PTS Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Satellite name	239PTS (239Alferov, 239-PTS, RS61S, Space-PI, Space π)
Form factor	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	not launched, expected in 2025
Launcher	Sojuz
Entity name	Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239
Institution	School
Entity	Academic / Education
Headquarters	Russia
Oneliner	Main missions of this satellite are Amateur and Educational connected with school children. " – monitor of cosmic gamma-ray transients; – VERA ablative pulsed plasma engine gamma-ray burst detection"
Description	Main missions of this satellite are Amateur and Educational connected with school children. Other mission is Space Research. All data from the scientific payload will be open to amateurs and children from school will be researching collected data from the payload. Amateur Mission (CW, Voice, SSTV, SSDV, Digipeater, Education in radio for school kids) Educational (working with collecting data, satellite telecommunication, satellite monitoring) Scientific (Scintillator detector for detection of gamma-ray bursts and similar high-energy counterparts of violent astrophysical events at the edges of Universe).
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COTS subsystems	PLATFORM - Geoscan
Subsystems sources	[1]

Last modified: 2025-04-19