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22/06/07:

A traditional scientific school-seminar "Space: science and education - 2007" will take place in Ulyanovsk on October 15-20, 2007. It will be devoted to the last achievements of the space research, their introduction into the high education, popularization of space physics, improvement of personnel training for space industry. Essential attention will be given to the perspectives of the participation of the Russian and NIS institutes in the processes of obtaining, processing and analysis of data from the nearest and perspective SINP projects. The results of the space mission of the super-small satellite "Universitetskij-Tatiana", successfully operated from January 20, 2005 till March 7, 2007 will be also under discussion.

The prgram of the school will inclide lectures of the leading specialists from Moscow University and other institutes and scientific organizations and the reports of participants.

The organizers invite all the interested persons to participate in the work of the school-seminar "Space: science and education - 2007" in order to discuss the development of Russian space educational program, and small student bodies - in order to get acquainted with the modern space physics research and the tasks of the space physics lab exercises.

At our site you will find the First Announcement (in Russian) of the scientific school-seminar "Space: science and education - 2007".

Send your applications and abstracts to: zhuravl@sv.ulsu.ru till September 1, 2007 (please, duplicate them to: zhvictorm@mail.ru).

13/06/07:

Diploma defense of five students papers, based on the processing of the experimental data, obtained from the board of the "Universitetskij-Tatiana" satellite took place on June 8, 2007 in Kostroma state univeristy

Work of the students was headed jointly by the sceintists from Kostroma and Moscow state universities. They worked in a close contact with Moscow supervisors, had several trainings in SINP in order to execute special space-physics lab exercises and to study the special courses on space physics using distance techniques, developed within the framework of MSU Innovative educational projects.

The Personnel Review Board marked both high rate of the students work and innovative approaches. In some sort these works became a test for the developed educational materials and approaches and demostrated opportunity for their further development.

16/02/07:

On February 8, 2007 a meeting on the reviewing of the flying tests of the supersmall spacecraft "Kompas-2", developed by the State rocket center "Academician V.P.Makeev Design Office", was held in the Russian Federal Space Agency.

The representatives of the Center and co-operating enterprises - Mission Control Center, Central Ingineering Scientific and Research Institute (TSNIIMASH), Production Association "Polyot", JSC "Novag", and of the oranisations-developers of the spacecraft IZMIRAN and Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics took part in the meeting.

The state commission presided over by the Vice-president of Roskosmos Yuri Nosenko voted the flying testing program as fully and successfully accomplished and took a decision of putting the spacecraft "Kompas-2" under the standard operating conditions.

During 2007 the spacecraft will be operated within the framework of the scientific programs developed by the Insitutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the meeting of the State commission the representatives of the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics reported about the unique scientific data on the solar activity, which they had already obtained from the board of the spacecraft.

The spacecraft "Kompas-2" was launched on May 26, 2006 by the SLBM "Shtil'" from the submarine "Ekaterinburg" in the Barents Sea. The scientific purpose of the satellite is monitoring of the natural and technogenic catastrophes and development of the earthquakes' warning system by space means. During the period from June up to December 2006 the tests of the service modules and of the on-board scientific equipment were carried out.

From the materials of the Federal Space Agency site http://www.roscosmos.ru/.

20/01/07:

We cordially congratulate the developers of the scientific equipement, all the participants of the Space Sceintific and Educational Project MSU-250 and the employees of Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics with the second anniversary of the "Universitetskiy" satellite launch! Wish them strong health, new creative success and new launches. Here you can find photo-report from Plesetsk launching pad on January 20, 2005.

04/12/06:

The first scientific data from the "Kompas-2" satellite are received and analyzed. The satellite was launched on May 26, 2006 at about 11 p.m. Moscow local time, but during the next half a year it was not possible to establish connection with the satellite.

The first scientific information for the period of November 27-28 is presented at Figure below. At the top graph one can see all the obtained information - four time intervals correspondent to four switchings of the equipment on. At the additional panel the satellite's coordinates (longitude and geomagnetic L-shell) are presented. The data from the 1st and the 3d time intervals on a larger scale accompanied with L-shell and local magnetic time MLT at the additional panels are presented at lower graphs separately.

The first interval covers the satellite's leaving of the Southern polar cap along the midday meridian. Electron channels demonstrate a smooth peak corresponding to the passing of the outer radiation belt. The inner (lower) boundary is at about L=4. At high latitudes there are no peaks which could witness auroral activity (and this fact is expactable for midday longitudes). Proton channels detect background level, as prescibed for the periods of solar flares absence and at the orbits' segments out of the South-Atlantic anomaly.

The next time intervals conforms to the satellite's entry into the Northern polar cap.

19/09/06:

A scientific school-seminar "Space: science and education - 2006" will take place in Ulyanovsk on November 6-10, 2006. It will be devoted to the last achievements of the space research, their introduction into the high education, popularization of space physics, training of personnel for soace industry. Essential attention will be given to the problems of space-physics lab exercises using in high education.

Besides review lectures the program of the school inclides scientific reports of the university teachers and students.

The organizers invite all the interested persons to participate in the work of the school-seminar "Space: science and education - 2006" in order to discuss the development of Russian space educational program, and small student bodies - in order to get acquainted with the modern space physics research and the tasks of the space physics lab exercises.

At our site you will find the First Announcement and preliminary program (both in Russian) of the scientific school-seminar "Space: science and education - 2006".

Send your applications and abstracts to: zhuravl@sv.ulsu.ru till September 30, 2006 (please, duplicate them to: zhvictorm@mail.ru).

07/07/06:

The conference "University Satellites and Space Science Education" (UNIVERSAT-2006) was held in Moscow on June 26-30, 2006. Over 100 scientists, teachers, educators and students from Russia, Belgium, France, USA, China, Poland, Taiwan, Armenia and Mexico took part in it. Detailed report about this conference you will find in the section "Events" and at the site UNIVERSAT-2006.

27/06/06:

On June 19-23, 2006 the SINP representatives, the authors of the Russian Space-Educational Project "MSU-250" took part in the International Scintific and Practical Conference "University Microsatellites - Prospects and Reality", which was organized in Evpatoria (Ukraine) on the base of the National Space Facilities Control and Test Center (NSFCTC). Our collegues presented the Russian project "MSU-250" in general, its scintific results and the Space-Physics Lab exercises, developed by SINP MSU. During the conference its participants discussed the prospects of the Russian-Ukranian collaboration in the field of the space education. Russian participants thanks the organizers of the conference for cordial reception.

27/05/06:

The "Kompas-2" satellite was launched on May 26, 2006 at 18:50 UT by SLBM "Shtil'-1" from the submarine "Ekaterinburg" in the Barents Sea. The satellite is loaded with on-board scientific equipment "Tatyana", developed by the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University, which is mainly intended for the studies of the radiation conditions in the near-Earth space.

18/05/06:

The seminar "Space and Education" (head V.V. Radchenko) will take place May 29, 2006 at 2 p.m. in SINP HEB, room 2-25. The program includes the report "National Ukranian Center of the Youth Aerospace Education - its goal, tasks and realization" by V.V. Khutorny, V.S. Zevako (National Ukranian Center of the Youth Aerospace Education).

24/04/06:

The seminar "Space and Education" (head V.V. Radchenko) will take place April 27, 2006 at 3 p.m. in SINP HEB, room 2-25. The program includes the report "The tasks for the Space-physics lab exercises" by V.M. Zhuravlev (Ul'yanovsk State University).

10/03/06:

The seminar "Space and Education" (head V.V. Radchenko) will take place March 14, 2006 at 2 p.m. in SINP HEB, room 2-25. The program includes the report "The features of the realization of the project "Spacecraft "Baumanetz" development"" by V.I. Mayorova (N.E.Bauman MSTU).

08/02/06:

An interdivisional SINP seminar "Space and Education" (head V.V. Radchenko) starts its work. The first seminat will take place on February 14, 2006 at 2 p.m. in SINP HEB, room 2-25. The program includes the reviews "Small satellites in education" by V.M. Shakhparonov (SINP) and "Using of service on-board systems for educational purposes" by V.I. Trushlyakov (Omsk University). We invite all interested persons to visit our seminar. To get further information by e-mail, please, send a letter to the seminar's secretary.

01/02/06:

February 1, 2006 is the day of the 60th anniversiry of Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics! We whole-heartedly congratulate all the employees of the Institute with the jubilee, wish them to score big successes in their work, to be healthy and happy! Information about the jubilee (in Russian) is presented at the site of the Institute.

20/01/06:

We cordially congratulate the participants of the Space Sceintific and Educational Project MSU-250 and all the employees of Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics with the first anniversary of the "Universitetskiy" satellite launch! Wish them to achive new crative success and new launches. Here you can find photo-report from Plesetsk launching pad on January 20, 2005.

26/12/05:

On June 26-30 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics holds the First International Symposium on Space Education "University Satellites and Space Science Education". The conference program covers a wide variety of topics concerning Space sciences University education, Space technology education, design and development of University satellites. The questions of information and network technologies and cooperation in Space Education will get special consideration. Full information about the conference you will find on its site.

20/12/05:

According to the joint resolution of Rosaviakosmos Agency and Navy of the Russian Federation the launch of the "Kompas-2" satellite is postponed to the second quarter of 2006.

12/12/05:

The section "Experimental data" of the site is added with information about the periods of high geomagnetic activity in 2005 and with experimental data on charged particles flux by the scientific equipment of the "Universitetskiy" satellite during these periods.

10/11/05:

The work at the second edition of the "Special space-physics lab exercises" has been started. This edition will include the new exercises from mechanics, navigation and space physics, based on the data obtained by the satellites "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2". We invite all persons concerned to take part in the development of the lab exercises.

18/10/05:

A school-seminar "Space and Education" which has already become a traditional took place in Ul'yanovsk on October 10-14, 2005. The program of the seminar included the lectures of the SINP MSU researchers about the main processes in space and their influence on the Earth, the lessons on the composition of the supersmall satellites "Universitetskiy" and "Kompas-2", their scientific equipment, methods of experimental data analysis and the space-physics lab exercises.

The students and teachers from the Ul'yanovsk, Kostroma, Volgograd state universities and Samara state aero-space university became active participants of the seminar. They have offered new variants of the lab exercises, programs for their realization and students' scientific works.

Annotations of the lectures (in Russian) in pdf-format (~800 kB) and photo-gallery from the conference are presented at our site.

06/10/05:

The section "Supersmall satellites" of the site is added with the description of the "Kompas-2" satellite and its scientific equipment.

18/08/05:

The Russian version of "JETP Letters" has published an article "Ultraviolet bursts in the equatorial region of the Earth" (by G.K.Garipov, M.I.Panasyuk, V.I.Tulupov, B.A.Khrenov, A.V.Shirokov, I.V.Yashin, U.Salazar). This article concerns the nature of the phenomena detected with the DUV equipment of the "Universitetskiy" satellite.

06/07/05:

The MSU Rector, Academician Viktor A.Sadovnichy thanked the following researchers of the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics and of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute officially by the Order for their work in the field of development of the "Universitetskiy" satellite: Yu.A.Batenkov, N.N.Veden'kin, G.K.Garipov, V.A.Konov, E.V. Kononovich, S.A.Krasotkin, T.V.Matveychuk, M.V.Podzolko, V.V.Radchenko, I.A.Rubinshtein, L.N.Samuylova, O.B.Smirnova, V.I.Tulupov, B.A.Khrenov, A.V.Tsyavuk, V.M.Shakhparonov, A.V.Shirokov, V.Ya.Shiryaeva, I.V.Yashin.

20/06/05:

On June, 14 Andrey V. Zhuravlev from the Ul'yanovsk state university defended the first diploma project based on the data from the "Universitetskiy" satellite. The subject of the research is "The program for visualization of the data from the satellites "Coronas-F" and "Universitetsiy" for the space-physics lab exercises". The mark is "excellent". We sincerely congratulate Andrey!

17/06/05:

The first edition of the "Space-physics lab exercises" and multimedia lectures "Life of the Earth in the Solar Atmosphere" was presented on June, 14 at the meeting of the Educational and Methodical Soviet in Physics, which took place in Kazan' university. The representatives from 30 institutions and universities have got the handbook. We call all persons concerned to ask for this textbook in dean's offices and to send us their opinion about the exercises. Internet-version of the textbook will soon appear at our site.

04/04/05:

The studies of the first group of students from the Kostroma state university has started in the Center of the receiving and processing of the satellites' information in the MSU.

The program of one-week-long course includes the lectures concerning the studies of the near-Earth space, high-energy astrophysics and solar activity, presentation of multimedia lectures "Life of the Earth in the Solar Atmosphere". The students will learn about the composition of the supersmall satellite "Universitetskiy", its technical characteristics and scientific equipment. Much attention will be devoted to the methods of the receiving and processing of the information from the satellites. The students will have an opportunity to do some variants of the lab exercises based on the satellite's data. We also plan to organize colloquiums in order to draw the students in development of the new exercises of different level.

14/02/05:

Today the MSU Rector, Academician Viktor A. Sadovnichy visited the Center of the receiving and processing of the satellites' information, which is organized in the Institute of Nuclear Physics. The officials of the Institute informed the Rector of the state of affairs in the Center and of the first results of the space and education project.

Later the press-conference devoted to the launch of the first Russian University satellite "Universitetskiy" took place in the ITAR-TASS news agency. The MSU Rector V.A. Sadovnichy, the main designer of the "Polyot" scientific-production association (Omsk) V.V.Markelov, the SINP Director M.I.Panasyuk and the SINP Vice-Director V.V.Radchenko made speeches, then they answered for the numerous questions.

21/01/05:

The first scientific data from the "Universitetskiy" satellite are already received and analyzed. The satellite was launched on January, 20 at 6 a.m. Moscow local time. Three hours later fluxes of high-energetic particles came to the Earth. The maximum energy of protons exceeded 200-300 MeV. So the "Great Holy Martyr Tatyana" was exposed to the first tests from the very first flight hours.

The first scientific information - the circuit for January, 20 from 9:10 to 10:40 Moscow time - is presented at Figure below. One can see the polar caps filled with the high-energetic protons, which penetrated there due to the "weakened" magnetic fields near the poles.

20/01/05:

The "Universitetskiy" satellite was launched on January 20, 2005 at 6 o'clock Moscow time from "Plesetsk" space-launch complex by "KOSMOS-3M" carrier rocket within the framework of the space-educational program of the Moscow State University. The satellite is loaded with on-board scientific equipment "Tatyana", developed by the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University, which is mainly intended for the studies of the radiation conditions in the near-Earth space. The satellite itself is manufactured in "Polyot" Production Association (Omsk, Russia). It's launched to the circular polar orbit of about 1000 km altitude by the Space Forces of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation.

Photo by A. Babenko.

Moscow State University supported by Samsung Electronics Co. Research Center organizes a Mission control center, which is planned to begin its work in March. The Center will provide receiving and processing telemetry from the satellite and remote control of the satellite, the students will study the processes in space on the basis of the data, obtained by the satellite.

7/12/04:

On December 15, 2004 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University organizes 1-day seminar "Education program of the space project MSU-250".

The purpose of the seminar is to inform the Universities' and institutes' lecturers and school teachers with the opportunities of the scientific-educational project "MSU-250".

The seminar will present the suggestions concerning possible ways of using of the information from the satellite as a basis for the lab exercises of different levels of complicity for the pupils of the higher forms, students and graduates, specialized in the field of space physics and development of spacecrafts.

There will be also presented the basic multimedia lectures "Life of the Earth in the Solar Atmosphere", compiled by the researchers from Sternberg Astronomical Institute and Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University. These lectures introduce wide range of users to the basic physical characteristics of the Earth, the Sun and the near-Earth space and to give a visual idea of the processes in the system "the Sun - the Earth", solar-terrestrial connections and so-called "space-weather".

9/10/04:

On October 4-8, 2004 a seminar "Using of supersmall spacecrafts for space-physics education purposes μSputnik 2004" took place in Ulyanovsk. The researches from Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Space Research Institute, the students and lecturers from Volgograd, Kostroma and Ulyanovsk State Universities, and the researches from "Polyot" Production Association, "Microsputnik" Association and teachers of the high schools actively participated in the seminar.

During the seminar its participants got information about the composition of the satellites which are prepared to be launched, on-board scientific equipment, methods of its processing and about the experience of the supersmall satellites launching and operation.

Statement of the tasks of special space lab exercises got particular attention.

ї Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics.