South Ural State University has become a winner of a competitive selection as part of the "Personnel for Space" federal project. Our university will launch a supplementary academic programme on designing small space equipment of the CubeSat 3U type used for biological research. Joint Stock Company Academician V.P. Makeyev State Rocket Centre (Miass) and Joint Stock Company Research & Development Institute of Mechanical Engineering (Nizhnyaya Salda) will act as partner enterprises here.
This programme aims at training specialists capable of solving cross-disciplinary tasks at the interfaces of space instruments engineering, materials science, satellite technologies, engineering analysis, and bioengineered systems. Students will learn the approaches to using composite materials and high-entropy alloys for creating elements for space equipment. The programme is managed by Dean of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Ruslan Peshkov.
The allocated funding is planned to be spent on purchasing eight learning kits of small space equipment. These will comprise: coupling units, power-supply system, solar panels, Earth remote sensing camera, and other modules. The total of 500 students will take training under this programme.
"The gained experience and the acquired equipment will allow us to lay the groundwork for participation in other contests under the "Personnel for Space" federal project," comments Ruslan Peshkov. "First and foremost, I mean the contests related to building real satellites to be launched, including for the tasks of qualified customers, and the contests aimed at creating an integral system of training highly-competent specialists for the rocket and space industry."
The equipment purchased for this programme will be used as a base for future training, and possibly, real space equipment.