5th July Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying student satellite Koit launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
TalTech student satellite project is being implemented by TalTech and DATEL together. Hämarik, our second student satellite, will launch on September 5.
The mission with which the student satellites will be tasked is primarily surveillance of the Earth using dithering and near-infrared cameras. Rauno Gordon, the head of space science at TalTech, explained that in principle detailed colour pictures can be taken of the Earth from space and that the globe can then be mapped using those images.
“We can also monitor the changes taking place in a particular region in closer detail, like geological processes or weather phenomena,” he added. “Near-infrared and dithering cameras make it possible for us to keep an eye on vegetation as well, which is to say what sort of shape the plants in a particular place are in and how viable they are – whether they’re showing strong growth or drying up.”
Datel is supporting TalTech’s Mektory Space Centre with calculation and presentation equipment and both satellites with software.
