Space Project IONOSAT-MICRO

IONOSAT-MICRO is a first stage of IONOSAT mission devoted to the multi-point global monitoring of dynamic processes in the ionosphere. The IONOSAT mission itself is planned to be realized in 2015-2016 with the help of three satellites at coordinated low Earth orbits (LEO). IONOSAT-MICRO is the forerunner project scheduled for launch in 2013 onboard Ukrainian micro-satellite MICROSAT with the aim to test the IONOSAT mission scientific postulates and preliminary collection of related space data (tentative MICROSAT orbit is polar LEO, �J500 km, TBD later). The main goal of the IONOSAT-MICRO project is the study of following formations in the ionosphere:

- Space-temporal structure and global distribution of inhomogeneities in neutral atmosphere and ionosphere;
- Global structure and dynamics of quasi-stationary electric currents, electric and magnetic fields;
- Wave structures and turbulences at different spatial and temporal scales;
- Synchronous experiments with ground support facilities - both active and passive ones.

To realize such a research, the scientific payload of the MICROSAT has to provide the measurements of following parameters:

- Neutral gas and plasma parameters - concentrations, temperatures;
- Vectors of DC-ELF-VLF electromagnetic field and ELF-VLF plasma current fluctuations (waveforms);
- Total electron content (TEC);
- Spectrum of ionospheric plasma waves.

Intended payload structure to realize such measurements is given in the Table below.

Sensor	Measured value	Specifications	Designer
1. Wave probes WP (3 pieces)	Electric current density J: Frequency range 0.1 Hz - 40 kHz Noise 10-12A/cm2Hz1/2 Magnetic field B: Frequency range 0.1 Hz - 40 kHz Noise 10-14 T/Hz1/2 Electric potential ��: Frequency range 0.1 Hz - 40 kHz Noise 10-6 V/Hz1/2	Power: �E0.25 W Weight: 0.225 kg	Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research (LCISR), Ukraine
2. Electric probe EP	Electric potential: Frequency range DC - 200 kHz Noise 10-6 V/Hz1/2	Power: �E 0.15 W Weight:�E 0.2 kg	LCISR, Ukraine
3. Radiofrequency analyzer RFA	High frequency variations, electric component. Frequency range 0.1 - 15 MHz	Power: �E 5 W Weight: �E 4 kg (including antenna)	Space Research Centre, Poland
4. Sensor of neutral and charged particles DN-DE	Density and temperature neutral prtcl. Nn: 105 - 1012 cm-3 charged prtcl. Ni: 103 - 1011 cm-3 electron temp. 0.1 - 1.5 keV	Power: �E 2 W Weight:�E 3 kg	Institute of Technical Mechanics, Ukraine
5. DC flux-gate magnetometer FGM	Frequency range DC - 1 Hz Resolution 0.01 nT	Power: �E 0.3 W Weight:�E 0.3 kg	LCISR, Ukraine
6. TEC meter	Frequency L1 = 1217 - 1265 MHz L2 = 1565 - 1615 MHz 20 channels	Power: 2.4 W Total Weight: �E1.34 kg	IZMIRAN, Russia
7. DPU	Input information rate, Mb/c, 100 Output information rate, Mb/c, 64 Onboard memory, up to 28 GB	Power: �E 4 W Weight: �E 1.5 kg	LCISR, Ukraine

The initial sketch of MICROSAT spacecraft (SC) is given below. Its service systems have to provide:

- GPS determination of SC positioning with error about �E20 m;
- SC attitude control within 5 deg.;
- SC attitude determination with the error no more than �E0.2 deg.

Spacecraft with booms (tentative layout)
To this, precise astro-sensor (allowing attitude determination within 0.01 deg.), gas engine and infra-red band remote sensing scanner are foreseen to install onboard.

Detailed information about the mission will be prepared after the final clarification of the payload composition and international team of project participants formation.

Space Weather Activities in Ukraine Summer 2011 Report (SWWT Plenary Meeting, 28 June 2011) | shrdocs.com

In Dnipropetrovsk, create a new satellite (Dnepropetrovsk comments, May 30, 2012)

CB "Yuzhnoye" starts to develop a new spacecraft.
As the "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine", CB "Yuzhnoye" has signed a contract with the National Space Agency of Ukraine. The designers will develop a 200-kilogram satellite, Science and Technology "Microsat."
The contract is 23 million hryvnia, which will be paid from the state budget. The first Ukrainian "Microsat" install the Japanese equipment.
"It will be similar to our previous satellite "Sich-2", but it is functionally different machines, said the head of the center information links GKB "Yuzhnoye" Yuri Moshnenko. On the "Microsat" will be technological and scientific experiments in space. "
Also installed on the equipment "Ionosat-Micro" will explore the ionosphere, space weather, diagnose, and natural and manmade disasters.
The satellite is planned to create up to 2013. Provided that all will be well, in November 2013 it will launch into orbit from the Baikonur new Brazilian Alcantara on the carrier rocket "Cyclone-4" (which, incidentally, is also developed in Dnipropetrovsk).

INN 7702361674 KPP 770201001 (Russian federal procurement portal, Posted 19/09/2012 15:59) Roscosmos Designation Order Creation (completion) scientific instrument TEC provides research height distribution of the electron density of the ionosphere and space experiments. Cipher midrange OCD: "Coronas-K" (PES).

Roskosmos has announced a competition to create an instrument for satellite "Microsat" (Novosti, 09/23/2012)

MOSCOW, September 23 - RIA Novosti. Roskosmos has announced a competition to create scientific instrument TEC, intended to study the ionosphere - which went into space on board a small Ukrainian satellite "Microsat", scheduled for launch in late 2013.
According to the materials of the contest, the initial (maximum) contract price is 5.9 million rubles for the competition must be submitted by October 23 of this year.
Ukrainian design bureau "Yuzhnoye" was engaged in the creation of a satellite "Microsat" intended for technological and scientific experiments in space, in 2008-2009, but later the project was suspended due to lack of funding.
In late May, "Yuzhnoye" and the Ukrainian Space Agency signed an agreement on the "finishing touches" satellite. Conditions document provides for the delivery to the customer satellite, which is estimated at 23 million hryvnia (2.875 million), until December 25.
Russian instrument TEC ("total electron content") is one of seven sensors scientific complex "Ionosat-micro" which are developed together scientists from Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia. This complex is designed to monitor the state of the ionosphere, in particular, the parameters and the spatial distribution of the plasma, the measurement of electrical currents and wave disturbances in the ionosphere.
The scientific program of the complex will include a joint simultaneous observations with the satellite and the ground.
"The instrument will measure the concentration of electrons at different altitudes in the ionosphere. This is one of the indicators of the state of the ionosphere. Themselves are separate measurements say little, but they are used in combination with other data, including satellite," - said the assistant Institute Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation name (IZMIRAN), which creates the device.
As expected, the satellite "Microsat" together with other spacecraft will be launched by Ukrainian carrier rocket "Cyclone-4", the first launch is scheduled for the end of 2013 from the Alcantara Cosmodrome (Brazil).
Subsequently, on the basis of the experience gained while working with a "Ionosat-micro", Ukrainian scientists are planning to set up three specialized satellite "Ionosat" that will monitor the ionosphere and can help predict space weather, in particular, magnetic storms.

Research by Ukraine of the near-Earth space (Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, 2013)

S. Moskalev, Ukriane

ILWS Activities in Ukraine 2013 Report (ILWS WG Meeting)

Aleksei Parnowski, Space Research Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine

Space project IONOSAT- MICRO － goals and realization (EGU2013)

Valery Korepanov, Georgii Lizunov, and Oleg Fedorov

Parliament proposes to allocate over 2.5 billion USD for the space program (21/05/2013)

Parliament decided, on the basis of the National Targeted research and technology space program for 2013-2016 years.

As correspondent reports, this paper proposes to finance the program of 2.58 billion, including Budget - 1.12 billion.

The program aims to improve the efficiency of space capabilities to address the pressing challenges of socio-economic, environmental, cultural, informational, educational, scientific and social development, national security and the protection of geopolitical interests.

The program, in particular, ensure that: the formation of space Earth observation and geophysical monitoring "Sich" with the space segment, ground control and ground set of information and its effective operation. Also expected to conduct research and space research in astrophysics, space biology and materials science, almost national and international projects. In particular, the initiative of Ukrainian scientists study ionosphere space experiment "Ionosat micro" creating scientific instruments for participation in international scientific experiments.

Ukrainian Space Programme (First Stakeholder Forum for STI Programme Owners and Managers)

O. Galagan

Space Weather Activities in Ukraine Summer 2013 Report (SWWT Plenary Meeting, 18 June 2013)

Aleksei Parnowski

13th Ukrainian Conference on Space Research (September 2 to 6, 2013)

The subject of the round table meeting will be: Preparation of the project "Ionosat-Micro"

Vasya Lukyanenko Riding over Space Radar (Redbull)
The 13th Ukrainian Conference on Space Research In Yalta (NKAU)

From 2 to 6 September 2013 in Yalta took place on the 13th Ukrainian Conference on Space Research, organized by the Space Research Institute of NAS of Ukraine and Ukraine DKA and National Control and Test Center of Space (NTSUVKZ, Evpatoria). The total number of participants was 220 experts from leading research centers in Ukraine (SRI, DP Bureau "South", GAO, LC ISR, ITM, IPM, Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko Kharkov National University. Karamzin, Lviv Polytechnic, KNURE et al.) and Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland and Romania. Events Conferences supported by the State Space Agency of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The conference session of the Russian-Ukrainian working group (involving experts DKAU and the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos) on cooperation in the space sector, which discussed, in particular, the state of implementation of joint programs and prospects for the use of NTSUVKZ.
During the conference discussed the current problems of space research results from projects National Space Program for 2013-2017 years, and targeted integrated program of NAS of Ukraine on Space Research. Meeting of the Conference held under sections 5 and 6 thematic subsections. Presented 27 plenary and section 146 of the reports presented 28 posters, held discussions and roundtables on topics and workshops on current and future projects (project "Micro-Ionosat" research phase: Prospects for the participation of Ukrainian scientists).
Presented new publications on space subjects.

Space Project "Ionosat-micro" (Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research, Oct. 10, 2013)

Authors: SA Drought, OP Fedorov. ISBN 978-966-360-228-8

Possibility to study ionospheric earthquakes precursors using CubeSats (40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 2014)

Valery Korepanov, Vaios Lappas

* Space Research in Ukraine. 2012-2014

International Conference on Climate Change and Disaster Management (i3CDM) (2015)

Anatoly N. Perminovand Sergei V.Cherkas, Methodology of short-term powerful earthquakes forecasting and warningsthrough the using of Earth-Space Monitoring Data: Russian approach

Degtiar V.G. and S.T. Kalashnikov, Small size spacecraft VULKAN-KOMPAS-2

Degtyarev A., A. Makarov , S. Moskalov , O. Fedorov and V. Korepanov, Directions of space researches of earthquake precursors

The head of HCA Ukraine OS Urusky: After two or three years, Ukraine will have its own satellite constellation (NKAU, 2015.4.24)

- When can we expect the first practical results of this cooperation?
- Next year we plan to launch a satellite in the program "Ionosat-Mikrosat" where invited foreign partners, in particular and Polish. We are currently in the final stages of negotiation participation of Polish scientists and their equipment aboard the spacecraft. The memorandum will discuss concrete issues of cooperation.

* Ukraine aims to have three Earth imaging spacecraft in orbit by 2018 (Space Digest)

１．伯ウクライナ宇宙開発協定の破棄の決定 (Embaixada do Japão)

（１）ルセーフ大統領は，関係省庁が作成した報告書を受け，伯ウクライナ宇宙開発協定の破棄を決定した。右協定の破棄は，本年１月，同大統領と関係閣僚（国防，科学技術，外務各大臣及び文官長）の会議で決定されたが，ウクライナ政府には通報されていないので，同協定は未だ効力を有している。

（２）協定破棄の理由は，伯の財政難により，サイクロン４型衛星打ち上げロケットの非常に高いコストに対応できなくなったことにある。伯ウクライナ両国は，協定の締結（２００３年）から約１２年間に亘り，商業衛星をサイクロン４型ロケットにより伯のアルカンタラ基地から打ち上げるとの計画に約１０億レアルを投資してきたが，未だに打ち上げは行われていない。両国は，２００６年に「アルカンタラ・サイクロン・スペース社」を設立し，２０１０年に打ち上げを行う予定であったが，資金難並びに先住民との間で土地の所有権を巡る争いが発生したため，打ち上げは２０１５年に延期されたが，今のところ，打ち上げ基地の施設は半分ほどしか完成していない。ウクライナが２０１４年から内戦状態にあることも，同国に対する不信感を募らせる要因となっている。

（３）ウクライナとの協定が破棄されれば，対米交渉への道が開けることになる。米国は，アルカンタラ基地の商業利用に強い関心を有している。伯米両国は，２０００年に米国が同基地を使用することで合意したが，米国が技術の共有を拒んだため，実現には至らなかった。ルセーフ大統領は，米国情報機関の盗聴事件により冷え込んだ米国との関係を修復しようとしており，同基地の使用が再び俎上に上る可能性がある。また，ロシアは，以前から，伯に対し，ウクライナとの協定を破棄するよう働きかけていたところ，ロシアが伯に衛星打ち上げロケットを提供する可能性がある。

* ロケット共同事業が中止　ウクライナに正式通達（サンパウロ新聞） | 宙に浮く日本初の位置天文衛星　国際情勢が翻弄（日経）

TechConnect World 2015

Method and cubesat-based system for classification of short-term earthquake precursors from space
Lviv Center of Institute for Space Research of National academy of sciences and State Space agency of Ukraine

Interview Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Oleg Uruskyi Ukrinform of publication 26 June 2015 01.07.2015

The first is Ukrainian Science and Technology Satellite-M Mikrosat of onboard equipment "Ionosat Micro". The spacecraft will study solar-terrestrial relations, will collect data for forecasting space weather and earthquakes. This project we see as international as it involved, in addition to our scientists, engineers and specialists from other countries, including Poland and Bulgaria. The launch is planned for the end of 2016 - beginning of 2017.

* Head Space Agency of Ukraine: Time to turn heads east to west

The Budget Planned Funds for NKAU 12/14/2015

State Space Agency of Ukraine (GKAU) in 2016 can get almost 3.4 billion USD, while on the development of the space industry provides more than 1.5 billion USD. These data are contained in the draft budget, published on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, reports UNIAN.

According to the document, the execution of works under the state target programs and state orders in the space industry provided 223.6 million USD. According to the explanatory memorandum, the allocation of these funds will allow to continue the performance of individual tasks and activities for the National Space Research and Technology Programme of Ukraine for 2013-2017. In particular, the money will be allocated for the creation and preparation for the launch into orbit of the spacecraft "Sich-2-1", which should provide a global overview of the Earth's surface with a resolution of 8 meters. In addition, the planned financing of the program to create the optical space system with a spatial resolution of 2.5 meters "Sich-2M", the creation of on-board scientific equipment for the pre-launch and launch of the space system "Mikrosat-M" as part of a large-scale international space experiment "Ionosat -Micro".

The session of the Scientific and Technical Council of the State Space Agency of Ukraine

The current state of «Ionosat-Micro» project preparation was discussed at the Scientific and Technical Council of the State Space Agency of Ukraine on March 10, 2016. The project implementation identified as a priority of the National Space Program of Ukraine. The schedule of the spacecraft integration with a launch in the year 2018 was approved. It was approved the decision on utilization of Polish and Bulgarian instruments as onboard scientific facilities and on preparation of relevant agreements. A number of workshops to coordinate the work plans were scheduled.

Ukraine and Bulgaria to cooperate in space sphere, youth policy and overcoming disasters 30 June 2016

In the presence of the Presidents of Ukraine and Bulgaria, the Agreement between the State Space Agency of Ukraine and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on Cooperation in the Framework of the Space Experiment Ionosat-Micro at the spacecraft Microsat-M has been signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin and Scientific Secretary General of the Academy of Sciences of Bulgaria Evdokia Pasheva.

* President Rosen Plevneliev reiterated the clear, forceful and principled support of Bulgaria for the European future of Ukraine

CubeSats: The Earthquake Prediction Tool We’ve Been Waiting For? (now.space, 2016.9.7)

But numerous recent studies, including two published in the past six months, have argued that small CubeSats built with simple electromagnetic measuring tools would be a relatively inexpensive way to get the data needed to do this kind of science correctly and solve the controversy once and for all. Funded by the Mitsubishi Foundation, Oyama formed the “Ionosphere Precursor Study Task Group” and, in a March 2016 study, argued that a constellation of microsatellites would be instrumental for monitoring activity above Japan. The benefit to a fleet is that they could cover more area and triangulate signals to better remove noise and to pinpoint an epicenter.

Another paper, this one by Valery Korepanov of the Lviv Centre of the Institute for Space Research in Ukraine in the journal Astronautica Astra, recommended a fleet of at least two CubeSats. A similar mission, named TwinSat, was proposed by both British and Russian researchers in 2012 and again in 2014 but was denied funding both times.

SPACE FUTURE: what to do in Ukraine (ITWeekend, 17 September, 2016)

Sergii Larkov, Ukrainian State Space Agency　Ukraine spends on space activities $0.25 per citizen per year

25 STEPS TO SPACE [pdf]

Spacing heights of space exploration (dt.ua, February 24, 2017)

Optimistic expectations and creative work (the project is ready for 80%) is cooled down by the content of the plan to finance work on the space program in 2017, which seems to include this project, but ... with a budget of 30 percent of the minimum necessary.
From now on, we are witnessing the manifestation of one of the peculiarities of domestic cosmoplaning - the complete lack of connection between work plans and their financing.

The nearest space projects and satellites of Ukraine (Mapgroup, 02/05/2017)

launch of the scientific satellite "Microcos-M" for space research on astrophysics, earth science, global and regional environmental changes. The spacecraft will also be used to test some of the domestic components: a rechargeable battery, solar panels, panels with thermoregulating coating, scientific equipment "Ionosat-Micro". The launch is scheduled for mid-2018.

Yaroslav Yatskiv: “Space is not a fantasy, it’s our future” (Spaceukraine, 04.10.2017)

On 22 of March we submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine a document: “Objectives of the national scientific and technical space program for 2018-2022 years”. We detailed everything there: how much money is needed to launch a rocket, manage satellites, etc. We requested from the state budget 4,877 bln. UAH ($187 mln.) for the concept that will be implemented during the next 5 years. Ministry of Economy replied that they could only allocate 387 mln. UAH ($14,8 mln.). For 5 years. It is nothing!

The cost of any normal space project in the world starts from $100 million (3 bln. UAH). We asked for 4 bln. and we were refused. Moreover, that concept was presented by the State Space Agency as an official state body together with independent scientific community. We didn’t get the amount that we requested, consider it to be zero.

Space explorer Kovalchuk-Skorokhod. About the planetarium from garbage bags and earthquake precursors (Depo, January 15 2018)

Her planetarium from garbage bags gained popularity in Warsaw, and recently wrote a draft on the New York Times. Tetyana Kovalchuk-Skorokhod studies the ionosphere and hopes to make a world-class discovery, a scientist and an employee of the Institute of Space Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine NASU-DKAU.

- Over it have been working for a long time?

- In 2011, a pilot project - satellite Sich-2 with scientific equipment "Potential" - was launched. At the same time they began to prescribe the concept, calculate. But there is no permanent financing. The last year we were promised money and we hired programmers. They worked for a long time, but in December they still gave money.

The guys started doing a PROMIS chic project for a little money. This is a database in which all parameters of the ionosphere from Ukrainian satellites will be available for all years. They made it flexible so that foreign scientists could join. Very promising thing that should be tested before the launch of the satellite. The base was almost completed, but in 2017, the money was not given at all, and the programmers were released. As far as I know, the team leader is now in Budapest.

- I saw that on the Internet the year of launch of the satellite is 2018. Will you make it

- Already ready mock satellite, scientific devices arrived in Lviv, there is going to be useful "utensils". Now all this must be collected on the CB "Yuzhnoye", but they too, as far as I know, money was not paid. So now the launch has been carried over to 2020 ...

The 55th session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (MFA, February 02 2018)

2. Creation of the Microsat-M spacecraft for the scientific experiment Ionosat-Micro and a number of technological experiments. The purpose of Ionosat-Micro experiment is to study the dynamical processes in the ionosphere of the Earth with the help of space and ground measurements to search for the interconnection of ionospheric perturbations with processes in the Sun, in the magnetosphere, the atmosphere and the inner shells of the Earth.

On Approval of the Concept of the National State Scientific and Technical Space Program of Ukraine for 2018-2022 (RADA, September 5, 2018)

- Scientific and technological system "Microsat-M" (2020)

A meeting of the Ukrainian-Chinese Sub-Commission on Space Cooperation was held NKAU, 11/12/2018

On October 8-10, 2018, the Fifth Meeting of the Ukrainian-Chinese Sub-Commission on Space Cooperation of the Commission on Cooperation between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the People's Republic of China was held in Beijing (China). The Ukrainian delegation, which also included representatives of enterprises involved in practical bilateral cooperation, was headed by DKA Chairman Pavlo Degtyarenko.

At the head of a large Chinese delegation - Administrator of the Chinese National Space Administration, Zhang Kyeing.

The parties reviewed the state of implementation of the Program of Ukrainian-Chinese cooperation in the space industry for 2016-2020, agreed on proposals for its updating and approved its new version. The updated version of the Program contains over 80 active items.

In addition, the parties updated the list of promising projects and directions of cooperation for the long-term perspective. Among them: joint activities for the prevention of natural disasters, plans for the fight against space debris and the study of the outer space.

* 中乌航天合作分委会第五次会议在京召开

* Ionosat-micro

Іоносат-Мікро | Іоносат-Мікро | Ionosat-Micro (IKD) | Іоносат-Мікро (Wikipedia)

Ionosat-Micro (NKAU) | Mikrosat (Yuzhnoye) The Microsat is slated for launch in 2015 by the Cyclone-4 launch vehicle.

Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research (Facebook)

Ukrainian-Brazilian space project "Cyclone-4" | Alcantara Cyclone Space | Cyclone-4 Launch Vehicle (NPO InterCoS) | Nano-JASMINE (eoPortal)

The description of high latitude ionospheric structures during last solar minimum (IRI Workshop, 10-14 October 2011)