28 – 31 January 2014 in the Scientific Institute of Nuclear Physics in Lomonosov Moscow State University (SINP) held Junior Space School. 40 school teams and junior students from different regions of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Yakutia, Chuvashia, Arkhangelsk, Plesetsk, Samara and Samara Region, Kaluga) and the Republic of Belarus listened to lectures, worked in laboratories, participated in nuclear and cosmophysical workshops and master classes and visited the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Air Force Museum in Monino and Skolkovo innovation center.
The main event of the Winter School was Qualifying Session of the Third Cup finals CanSat (?CanSat in Russia”), during which the team members defended their projects. The intellectual level of the projects, their design ideas and solutions were assessed by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and companies – residents of the Skolkovo Foundation, pupils were awarded the best teams diplomas and gifts. In addition to the activities of selection, the participants of the school listened to Professor M.I. Panasyuk who read the lecture on Restless Universe.
Project CanSat in Russia is a Russian version of the international youth competition for the design and creation of educational models of satellites. Its initiators are SINP and “Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics” (CMI). The organizers of the championship are SINP, Dubna City Hall and the administration of Taldomsky District, Moscow Region. Financial support is provided by the company Dauriya Aerospace plant tensor and a number of other organizations.
CanSat in Russia is a team competition. Students received initial skills in microcontroller programming, engineering design, learnt to send and receive telemetry via radio and so on. Each team had to design, construct, program, test and launch a working model of “satellite” to a height of 1-2 km. This tutorial “satellite” had to include all systems presented inherent spacecraft: a transmitter, a system for collecting and processing information (trip computer), scientific load recovery system. During the descent by parachute “satellite” carries a mandatory scientific program, inherent in the base constructor, and more programs, which are prepared by the team.
The First Russian championship CanSat involved 50 teams of students from 17 regions of Russia (including Moscow, the Moscow Region, Kaluga, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Samara, Kazan, Republic of Chuvashia, etc.), as well as from the Republic of Belarus. Participants in the second championship began 46 teams from 11 regions of Russia and a team from the Republic of Belarus.
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