ASRTU-1 Spacecraft

Educational mission from with camera from Russian and Chinese university students.

Designed by Russian and Chinese university students for education and amateur radio. The amateur radio station onboard ASRTU-1 will provide telecommand uplink and telemetry / digital image downlink. 

A new SDR based transceiver was developed for ASRTU-1 to provide communication and experiment resources to radio amateurs, including a V/U FM transponder, a UHF telemetry downlink and a 10.5G image downlink. The satellite will also provide an open telecommand to allow radio amateurs to send commands to control the satellite to take and download images.

ASRTU micro-satellite is developed by Harbin Institute of Technology under the cooperation of the China-Russia University of Technology Alliance (ASRTU) With a mass of about 17.4 kg, the satellite is a 12U cube satellite orbiting a 530km sun-synchronous orbit. It is mainly equipped with high-resolution camera developed by Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, self-developed CMOS camera, navigation board, bio-fuel cells and so on.

It will send the first Russian-Chinese university satellite Druzhba ATURK into space. The device has been under development for several years as part of the implementation of the China-Russia cooperation program in the space industry for 2023-2027. The first joint satellite of the two countries was designed by students from the Harbin Polytechnic University and Amur State University.

The main payload on it is a high-resolution camera and the Foton-Amur module.

• The high-resolution camera was developed by the Harbin Polytechnic University. From a distance of 500 km above the Earth, it can record a 2.5 m section in detail.
• Amur State University has developed the Foton-Amur module, which allows studying the impact of space factors on the operation of photoelectric converters. The uniqueness of this module is that the material for photoelectric converters (nanofilms) was obtained by young scientists from Amur State University in the Surface Physics Laboratory of the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Scientific and Educational Center.
• Photoelectric converters are an integral part of any solar panel. The efficiency of the panel depends largely on the material from which the photoelectric converters are made. We plan to use our development in space. Today, a solar panel based on gallium arsenide compounds is used in space in low Earth orbits. They have high efficiency, but they are expensive. Our material, if successfully tested, will help to significantly reduce the cost of satellite production, - explained Dmitry Fomin, Director of the K.E. Tsiolkovsky Scientific and Educational Center.

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