On January 3, another Ukrainian nanosatellite, PolyITAN-HP-30, created for the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, will be launched into Earth’s orbit from Cape Canaveral, using the Falcon-9 launch vehicle of the SpaceX company, Report informs referring to The Odessa Journal.
The launch will take place at 16:56 Kyiv time.
The PolyITAN-HP-30 nanosatellite was created by scientists of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” exclusively with budget funds provided by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine within the implementation of the respective winning projects of scientific research and development competitions and the basic financing agreement.
The delivery of the PolyITAN-HP-30 nanosatellite to the US for its launch into Earth orbit was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of Boeing Ukraine, the support of Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), whose spin-off company took over the financing and technical support of the launch of the spacecraft into space, the State Space Agency of Ukraine, which contributed to solving logistics and export issues.
After the launch into the planned orbit, the nanosatellite will ensure the implementation of a scientific experiment to study the effectiveness of the functioning of heat pipes (heat pipes) of various designs as the main element of the thermal stabilization systems of space vehicles.