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Universitetsky-Tatyana-2

Research & Educational Satellite

Field	Value
name	Universitetsky-Tatyana-2
mission_type	Technology demonstration; Education
operator	MGU
COSPAR_ID	2009-049D
SATCAT	35868
mission_duration
launch_mass	98 kg
launch_date	UTC
launch_rocket	Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat
launch_site	Baikonur Site 31/6
last_contact
orbit_epoch	6 July 2014, 02:36:45 UTC
orbit_reference	Geocentric
orbit_regime	Low Earth
orbit_periapsis	820 km
orbit_apoapsis	827 km
orbit_inclination	98.54 degrees
orbit_period	101.22 minutes
apsis	gee

Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 was a small research and educational satellite mainly developed by Taiwan (National Cheng Kung University and National Central University) and Russia Moscow State University and launched on 17 September 2009 from Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket. This satellite was equally sponsored by Taiwan and Russia. Along with teamwork supported by Mexico and South Korea, the two Taiwanese institutions particularly contributed satellite computing systems, flight programmes as well as thermotic, magnetic, and digital data processing devices.

Mission objectives

The satellite was part of an international research and educational youth program of near-Earth space exploration. The mission's objectives were:

Investigating light phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere due to the effect of galaxy cosmic rays and high-energy charged particles;
Investigating en-route radiation conditions;
Investigating variations of the Earth's gravitational and magnetic fields.

Over the course of its mission, Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 detected over 1000 flashes in the Earth's atmosphere.

End of mission

The Universitetsky-Tatyana-2 spacecraft ended operations on 16 January 2010 due to a failure in the attitude control system.

References

McDowell, Jonathan. "Launch Log". Jonathan's Space Page.
(6 July 2014). "TATIANA 2 Satellite details 2009-049D NORAD 35868". N2YO.
Zak, Anatoly. "Soyuz-2 launch vehicle (14A14)". RussianSpaceWeb.
(2010). "ESEMS Program". [[NSPO]].
Clark, Stephen. (17 September 2009). "Soyuz rocket launches Russian weather satellite". Spaceflight Now.
(2009-08-12). "MAKS-2009: Participants - FSUE "A. G. Iosifian Research and Production Enterprise - All-Russia Research Institute Of Electromechanics With Plant" (VNIIEM)". Roscosmos.
Krebs, Gunter. (21 July 2019). "Universitetsky 2 (Tatyana 2, RS 38)". Gunter's Space Page.

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