ROSCOSMOS - Microsatellite Chibis-M patch.
25.01.2012
January 25 in Moscow 03.18.30 small spacecraft "Chibis-M" separated from the cargo vehicle (THC), "Progress M-13M" and began its autonomous flight.
Dropping of microsatellite "Chibis-M" in orbit
According to the ballistic Service Mission Control Center microsatellite was launched with the following parameters:
• The minimum height above the surface of the Earth - 497.535 km;
• The maximum height above the surface of the Earth - 513.607 km;
• period - 94.55 minutes;
• inclination - 51.62 degrees.
A few minutes after separation, "Shibis-M" was produced the first telemetry data, which confirmed that the office of the device are included.
Small Spacecraft "Chibis-M" was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS), THC, "Progress M-13M" November 2, 2011. After flights to the ISS January 24, 2012 a cargo ship with a set of microsatellite It undocked from the station and transferred to a higher orbit. For the first time that a tug was used THC such as "Progress".
This maneuver was performed in order to launch into the working orbit "Chibisa-M", intended to implement a new geophysical experiment designed to study complex physical processes in atmospheric lightning discharges.
Chibis-M
Microsatellite "Chibis-M" was created at the Institute of Space Research Institute in conjunction with other scientific organizations.
Approximately one-third the mass of the satellite is a complex of scientific equipment (KPA), "The Storm". For the first time on a single satellite has a set of devices, "overlapping" range from gamma to radio waves, which are intended research will "see" the largest possible number of processes that occur when a lightning discharge.
In the KPA "The Storm" includes x-ray detectors, gamma, ultraviolet and radio waves (30-50 MHz), generated by lightning discharge at an altitude of 13-20 km. In the KPA also includes instruments for studying the plasma oscillations. To understand whether these are accompanied by flashes of lightning radiation, the KPA equipped with a digital camera.
X-ray detector and gamma-radiation and UV detector set at the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics. DV Skobeltsyn University. Radio frequency analyzer is designed to IKI. In the KPA is also a digital camera digital camera (IKI), which will take pictures of Earth in the optical and detector analyzers electromagnetic radiation (0,1-40000 Hz) - magnetic plasma ERM complex, created by Ukrainian and Hungarian scientists.
"Chibis-M" is in line with several devices, which are also involved in the study of phenomena and lightning discharges in the upper atmosphere.
Weight about 40 kg microsatellite.
Dimensions in the open state (antenna and solar panels) 1250x966 mm.
Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=18604
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