Lobachevsky Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Name	Lobachevsky (RS83S)
Type	CubeSat
Units or mass	16U
Status	not launched, expected in 2025
Launcher	Sojuz
Organization	Nizhny Novgorod University
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Nation	Russia
Manufacturer	AIVT by Geoscan
Oneliner	The satellite's payload will consist of two spectral cameras and an FM radio signal repeater.
Description	The small spacecraft of Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod) was created on the basis of the Geoscan 16U satellite platform of the CubeSat standard with a 16 U form factor. The satellite's payload will consist of two spectral cameras and an FM radio signal repeater. Two cameras, hyperspectral and multispectral, will be provided by the project partners from Samara University and a company from Zelenograd, respectively. This equipment will allow conducting agroecological research from space in various regions of the Russian Federation: the satellite will photograph forests, fields, crops, after which the images will be sent to Earth for study. The Nizhny Novgorod team has a goal to receive space spectral images and teach artificial intelligence to process them. Another device on board the satellite will be a radio signal repeater for the needs of the global community of radio amateurs. Satellites such as Lobachevsky allow radio amateurs to begin mastering satellite communications with minimal costs and resources. The repeater itself will be designed and manufactured by students of the Nizhny Novgorod University. The tasks of the repeater, which will be installed on the spacecraft: Analog cross-band repeater based on two SA868 modules; digital cross-band repeater with long signal transmission delay (30-40 minutes); study of the volt-ampere characteristics of 12 individual memristors. The data format will be open. This will be a cross-band repeater (145.910 MHz – downlink; 435.500 MHz – uplink (FM)). The basic scheme is similar to the scheme of the inter-band repeater installed on the Chelyabinsk cubesat , only on more powerful modules. To learn more about the repeater installed on the satellite, you can read the interview with Maxim Zharkov or the article by Evgeny Melnikov (R9AL). The Nizhny Novgorod device will begin its flight at an altitude of 515 kilometers above the Earth in a near-polar (solar-synchronous) orbit with its subsequent decrease. The satellite's frequencies are coordinated within the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).
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