Ionosat-Micro
# Ionosat-Micro

Ionosat Micro is a Ukrainian satellite mission.

The head scientific organization is the Space Research Institute of NAS of Ukraine and SSA of Ukraine.

## General information

"Ionosat-Micro" Mission realized under the National purpose scientific and technical space program of Ukraine.

Particular project tasks:

## The history of the project

Formation of the scientific objectives of the project "Ionosat - Micro" was for a long time, and conceptual provisions were first formulated in the 1990s, during the development of unrealized mission "Warning." Then, after tragic Spitakskii earthquake (1988), the political leadership of the USSR initiated the development of new, more effective methods of earthquake prediction, based, in particular, on the use of non-traditional for Seismology approaches such as observation of ionospheric harbingers of earthquakes etc. Thus arose the idea of mission "Warning", which, if not collapse of the USSR (1991), could be the most ambitious satellite project in the history of world studies of the ionosphere. The "Ionosat-Micro" Mission on the satellite "Mikrosat-M" embodies the ideas of the mission "Warning" on modern scientific and technological basis.

For the diagnosis of electromagnetic processes in ionospheric plasma in the "Ionosat-Micro" Mission will be used complex instrument MWC, developed by Lviv Centre of Space Research Institute. Experimental testing elements MWC was conducted space experiments "Variant" in the Ukrainian remote sensing satellite "Sich-1M" (2004). To measure the parameters of the ionosphere gas - concentration and temperature neutral and ionized gases - is a complex instrument DN - DE, established in Institute of Technical Mechanics. Flight testing sensors DN and DE experiment was carried out in "Potential" in the Ukrainian remote sensing satellite Sich-2 (2012). In the "Ionosat-Micro" Mission involving foreign partners: Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (translated) is instrument RFA creator and Space Research and Technology Institute is instrument ID-2 creator.

The satellite launch was planned for 2018. As of May 2019, work is go on.

## Spacecraft and orbit

"Ionosat-Micro" scientific instrumentation set is installed on the satellite platform «Microsat-M» designed by Yuzhnoye State Design Office to conduct scientific and technological experiments. Ideas for the satellite launching into orbit are processed.

## "Ionosat-Micro" scientific instrumentation

Scientific instrumentation onboard "Microsat-M" designation:

General characteristics of «Ionosat-Micro» scientific instrumentation set:

* weight < 20 kg
* power consumption < 51 W
* data downstream up to 6 GB per day

«Ionosat-Micro» scientific instrumentation set:

## Sources

* ↑ (eng) Mikrosat — Yuzhnoye Design Office
* ↑ "(ru) Лизунов Г.В., Лукенюк А.А., Макаров А.Л., Фёдоров О.П. Космический проект «Ионосат – Микро»: цели и методы // Космический проект «Ионосат-Микро»: монография / Под общ. ред. С.А. Засухи, О.П. Фёдорова. – К.: Академпериодика, 2013. – С. 11–25". Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
* ↑ (ukr) Лізунов Г.В. Українські супутникові проекти іоносферних спостережень: від «Попередження» до «Іоносату» // Світогляд. – 2014. – №6 (50). – С. 18–24
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* ↑ (eng) Makarov O.L., G.V. Lizunov, A.A. Lukeniuk, V.Ye. Korepanov, V.O. Shuvalov, Yu.A. Shovkoplias, S.I. Moskalev. Experiment POTENTIAL onboard SICH-2 microsatellite – first results // 63rd International Astronautical Congress, Naples, Italy, October 1–5, 2012. IAC-12-B4.2.13571
* ↑ "В Украине разрабатывают четыре типа новых спутников". May 10, 2019.
* ↑ (ru) Макаров А. Л., Шовкопляс Ю.А., Москалев С.И., Галабурда Д.А. Космический аппарат «Микросат» // Космический проект «Ионосат-Микро»: монография / Под общ. ред. С.А. Засухи, О.П. Фёдорова. – К.: Академпериодика, 2013. – С. 109—117
