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At the end of last year, young Russian scientists from Moscow Engineering University decided to use Boomstarte crowdfunding platform to raise money for Launch of the Mayak reflector mini-satellite. If successful, this for almost a month the “beacon” will become the “brightest star” for earthlings whom they can admire at night – practically from anywhere in the world.
When will the Mayak satellite launch
And here is the first good news, a million and a half has already been collected rubles, although it’s still four months before the planned launch, so guys got full confidence that their project will gain a life.
The size of the spacecraft is only forty centimeters, however after entering a given orbit, it will reveal its pyramidal reflectors three meters in size, thanks to which to the surface giant sunbeams will be launched, which earthlings will perceive as the brightest star in the sky.
The cost of the Mayak satellite itself is low, but its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome through the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle will cost seven to eight million rubles. This money is today and young scientists collect through voluntary donations. To everyone who will participate in this project, a group of engineers headed by promises various prizes with Alexander Shaenko, and the most active – participation in the launch of the satellite.
The satellite will rise five hundred to six hundred kilometers above the surface of the Earth, will pass in a near-polar orbit through the poles, and because during the planned twenty-five days of his flight all earthlings will be able to see. You can trace the flight of the satellite will be through a special mobile application.
Note that Russia, despite the rather complicated economic situation and various sanctions by the West, remains global the leader in the number of space launches last year twenty nine were implemented while the US managed to only nineteen, of which two were emergency. This year the situation remains equally stable, and the launch of young engineers its satellite will only be a confirmation that in the Russian Federation is growing a new change of space explorers who do not and there will be no equal.
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