Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub launched the Parus-MSTU student satellite as part of an experiment to study motion using solar sails during a spacewalk. The broadcast was made via the website roscosmos.
The satellite was launched using a special launch device. After the launch, astronauts will watch the satellite’s solar sail unfurl. By changing the length of the sail, which is bombarded by solar charged particles, you can adjust the thrust and thus change the orbit of the satellite.
The launch device was also developed by MSTU students.
Previously reportedcosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub went into space and turned off the radiator-heat exchanger circuits of the multi-purpose laboratory module “Science”.
Kononenko and Chub will then need to install a small-sized radar to observe the Earth’s surface on the Nauka MLM. If they have time, the cosmonauts will also replace the retaining plates that hold the cables in place in the Zvezda module.
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