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Subj: Russian Satellite 'Mozhayets' Service Life Extende
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 187.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. July 6, 2003
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Moscow ITAR-TASS in Russian 0330 GMT 12 Jun 03...
St Petersburg, 12 June: The service life of the Mozhayets
satellite, which belongs to the Mozhayskiy Space Military Academy,
has been extended until November 2003, academy deputy head Maj-Gen
Vyacheslav Fateyev said at an international conference on high
technology, innovation and investment held in St Petersburg under
the aegis of the Russian Economy Ministry. The Mozhayets satellite,
used for educational and communication purposes, was made by the
students and the faculty of the Mozhayskiy academy on the basis of
a decommissioned military appliance within the framework of a
conversion project. On 28 November 2002 it was sent into orbit
along with the foreign Alsat communication satellite by a Space
Troops' rocket carrier from the launch site in Plesetsk.
Mozhayets is currently used for training purposes by academy
students, and as a transmitter for GLONASS global navigation
system. The satellite was to have been ditched at the end of May,
but it's service life was extended as, according to telemetric
information, all the satellite's systems were working normally.
Mozhayets is the first space vehicle owned by a higher educational
establishment, Gen Fateyev said. It marks the start of an era of
space research for Russian universities. Another satellite of the
same series recently has been sent to Plesetsk. The Mozhayets
pilot project has laid the foundation for the inter-university
Miniaturization in Space programme.
[ANS thanks Max, M3RGO, for the above information]
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