Our spacecraft “Yarilo-1” and “Yarilo-2” (somebody called “Yarilo”) were launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome as a piggy-back launch of the Soyuz-2.1 b on September 28, 2020, at 14:20 Moscow time.

Now both satellites are in working orbit. We received the first signals. Communication and satellite control systems are being debugged. Frequency 435,350 / 435,550 МГц, BW 20 кГц

Watch the video below about how we waited for the first signals!

Our satellites “BMSTU-Sail” and “Yareelo” and stratospheric craft “Snejhinka” were exhibited at the VI International Military-Technical Forum Army-2020».

Congratulates our colleagues Gataulina Adelina, Polshchikov Sergei and Porseva Svetlana, who won the second prize in “Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization Microsatellite Contest” between 24 teams. Competition was carried out from 31 October to 1 November in Northwestern polytechnical university in Xian, China. They presented a work connected with the project “Yareelo”.

The 70th International Astronautical Congress 2019 was helded in Washington from 21 to 25 October. Our team members presented 2 reports, one: “Rotary solar sail for nanosatellite constellation formation”, the second: “Device for passive CubeSats deorbiting”. The presentations were prepared by Valeriia Melnikova and Anatoly Shapovalov.

From 16 to 21 September 2019, the V all-Russian youth scientific and practical conference «Orbit of youth» was held in St. Petersburg.