Russian and Indian students to construct satellite together first time

Russian and Indian students start collaboration in the space industry. They will work in tandem on developing a satellite, TASS informs. Students of Moscow Aviation Institute and Space Kidz India Indian Agency are taking part in the project. According to the agency’s director Srimathy Kesan this satellite can be fairly called a satellite of friendship.
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She has explained that Iskra-5 satellite is to become the first students’ development, not governmental one. The satellite weighing 1,5 kilos will provide connection and transmit images in SSTV format.

More than a dozen of students from India and around two hundred students from Russia are project participants. Later Iskra will be brought to the International Space Station by Progress truck. A cosmonaut will send it to the orbit during flight to open space already at the beginning of next year.

Srimathy Kesan has remarked that the mutual project will become a new step in development of partnership between young scientists of both countries.

Negotiations between Moscow Aviation University and Space Kidz India were held at International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2017 in Zhukovsky city near Moscow this July. The parties agreed the long-term cooperation programme on mutual development and launch of space ships.

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