RUSSIAN TECHNOLOGIES OF MONITORING AND REMOTE SENSING USING NANOSATELLITES

摘要

The first nanosatelhte developed in JSC «Russian Space Systems» was launched in 2005 from ISS and its construction was used as the basis for the whole series of the technological satellites. According to the obtained experience the nanosatellite (TNS-0 #2) concept for the atmospheric radio occultation technology realization was elaborated. It was shown, that in case of using solar panels in the onboard power supply subsystem and specialized antennas for GNSS signals receiving, the platform TNS-0 is suitable for solving of that scientific issues. The nanosatellites development program with different purposes payload onboard has being realized in JSC «Russian Space Systems» since 2007. Three main tasks have been considered in this program: AIS signals registration from marine vessels in outer space, ionosphere plasma state monitoring and atmospheric GLONASS/GPS radio occultation space-based technology. The objects monitoring system base elements, including nanosatellite with AIS receiver onboard («CosmoAIS»), began to develop in 2010. In addition the problems of perspective AIS satellite segment modeling, ground segment deployment, AIS payload for meteorological and resource low orbit satellites development has been investigated under the umbrella of the research. The other enterprise activity direction is the ionosphere monitoring technologies based on radio tomography method. More than 10 special tomography stations for 150/400 MHZ signals receiving have been deployed in Russian Federation territory at the present time. Thereby, this research presents the successful development examples of the special nanosatellites payloads and technologies in Russia. These devices might become the commercial products in the case of their successful tests in outer space. Taking into account the potential commercialization process of the CubeSaf s payloads for the different monitoring and remote sensing space systems the possibility of the international cooperation with relatively reasonable «entry ticket» price for the countries, which are new in space industry, is starting.