During the meeting Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine — Minister on issues of strategic industries Oleg Urusky with the participation of the head of the State space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) Vladimir Taftie held in the design Bureau (KB) "the South", it was confirmed that work on the satellite remote sensing of the Earth "Sich-2-30" are in accordance with the previously approved schedule, according to Defense Express.
The agency writes that in August at the Institute of Technical Problems of Magnetism of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, qualification tests of a dimensional-dynamic model of a spacecraft with a model of a payload adapter and a model of a separation system from the carrier were completed. According to the results of the corresponding report, Urusky confirmed that the launch of Sich-2-30 is scheduled for December. The reserve period is January 2022.
Defense Express recalls that in May it became known about the signing of a contract between the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and the European company ISILAUNCH for the launch of the Sich-2-30 satellite by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The 180-kilogram comic device "Sich-2-30" is designed to take images of the Earth's surface in the optical and infrared ranges. The satellite should be located in a sun-synchronous orbit (663-682 kilometers high). The developer of the satellite was the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, the manufacturer was Yuzhmash. The active life of the satellite is five years. The cost of launching "Sich-2-30" by the American Falcon 9 rocket is $ 1.9 million. The spacecraft should become the first national satellite of Ukraine.
Previously, the first Ukrainian satellite was considered to be the geostationary telecommunications spacecraft "Libid", produced by the Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates under an agreement concluded in 2009. The contract cost was $ 254 million. It was assumed that the satellite would be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome from the Ground Launch platform, the production of the rocket under which has already been discontinued. Currently, the satellite is located in the city of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, on the territory of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems enterprise. Moscow is waiting for Kiev to pay for its transportation to the Baikonur cosmodrome or to Ukraine and the cost of Russian components in the production of the Zenit-3SLBF carrier, with which it was planned to launch Libid.
Ivan Potapov