Sputnix

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Sputnix

Industry	Commercial spaceflight[1]
Founded	2011
Headquarters	Moscow, Skolkovo, 42 , Russia
Key people	Vladislav Ivanenko (CEO)
Website	sputnix.ru

Sputnix (Russian: спутникс, also спутниковые инновационные космические системы, "Satellite Innovative Space Systems") is a privately-owned satellite construction company headquartered at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. It is one of Russia's first private space companies. It was founded in 2011 by ScanEx.

History[]

Sputnix was established in 2011 by the ScanEx satellite technology department, which developed the orientation and stabilization system of the Chibis-M microsatellite by order of the Russian Space Research Institute.^[2][3][4] It is based at the Skolkovo Innovation Center.^[5][6]

Since 2012, Sputnix has been creating satellite platforms and service systems for microsatellites and nanosatellites. In 2013, Sputnix received a license from the Russian Federal Space Agency to carry out space activities and began to create a microsatellite-technology demonstrator TabletSat-Aurora.

On June 19, 2014, the first privately-owned Russian microsatellite, Tabletsat-Aurora, was launched into a Low Earth orbit on a Ukrainian launch vehicle Dnepr rocket^[7][8] implementing a contract between Sputnix and ISC Kosmotras.^{[9][10][11][12][13]} In 2017, Sputnix developed the Orbiсraft-Pro satellite platform based on the international CubeSat standard. The OrbiСraft-Pro platform is a design kit that allows the assembly of various configurations of nanosatellites with different payloads. The scientific and educational satellites SiriusSat-1^[14] (COSPAR 1998-067PG; decayed from orbit 9 December 2020) and SiriusSat-2^[15] (COSPAR 1998-067PH; decayed from orbit 9 December 2020) were created with the OrbiСraft-Pro platform, and launched from the International Space Station on August 15, 2018.^{[16][17][18][19]}

Main activities[]

Sputnix develops orientation and stabilization systems and other service systems for microsatellites and CubeSat satellites; microsatellite and CubeSat platforms, allowing the quick creation of satellites for technological, scientific and educational experiments; equipment and software for ground communication stations; attitude determination and control system (ADCS) test benches for research of small satellites dynamics in the simulated space environment of zero gravity, homogenous unsteady magnetic field, sunlight, sky of stars; and equipment for aerospace education.^[20][21]

International activity[]

Sputnix is known as an experienced producer and exporter in the space field.^[22] The company provides solutions^[buzzword] for educational aerospace laboratories and aerospace education for schools and universities. Sputnix delivers satellite functional kits, data receiving ground stations, space environment simulators and equipment, accompanied by educational materials.

Satellites[]

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