SamSat-218D Spacecraft - Nanosats Database

Spacecraft name	SamSat-218/D (Kontact-Nanosputnik)
Spacecraft type	CubeSat
Units or mass	3U
Status	Reentry 2022-03-04. Was semi-operational? (Lack of reports with telemetry. Maybe fragmentary data but unknown if correct satellite. Last SatNOGS reports 2019-04-12, but suspicious data)
Launched	2016-04-28
NORAD ID	41466
Deployer	SRC-POD (Space Rocket Centre Progress JSC)
Launcher	Sojuz-2-1a
Organisation	Samara University
Institution	University
Entity	Academic / Education
Nation	Russia
Oneliner	Demonstration of navigation and control technologies.
Description	The main objective of this satellite is a demonstration of navigation and control technologies. Researches aimed at improving of performance reliability of equipment will make space experiments more efficient.
Results	“Currently, fragmentary Morse code signals are being heard coming from the nanosatellite, against the background of the noise during the satellite’s pass over the receiving station,” Interfax said in a *press release. “There are currently no sufficient grounds to believe the nanosatellite established contact. There were fragmentary weak signals at the frequency of 145.870 MHz against a background of noises when the nanosatellite was in the area of [radio visibility] of the ground control center, which can’t be with confidence interpreted as signals from the satellite,” Igor Belokonov, the head of the SamSat-218 project told TASS.*
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Last modified: 2025-04-26