Akhmat-1, the first space satellite created in the Chechen Republic as part of the Planet Duty program, was successfully launched into orbit and began work on tracking the movement of aircraft. This was reported to TASS by the press service of Southwestern State University, which was involved in the creation of the satellite.
A small 2.5 kg device is equipped with an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (AZN-B) message receiving module and is designed to monitor aircraft movements within a range of 1,500 km. It was created in cooperation with Chechen and Southwestern State Universities as part of the Space-Pi project, which aims to attract schoolchildren and students to the study of space and space technologies.
Along with Akhmat-1, another 41 small spacecraft were launched into orbit as part of the corresponding payload on the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on Tuesday, June 27. The main payload is Meteor-M hydrometeorological satellite No. It was 2-3.
The Akhmat-1 satellite became the first spacecraft created in the Chechen Republic to help solve important problems in the field of air transport, and also became an important step in the development of the space industry in the region and attracting young people to space. discovery.