“SibCube” - CubeSat satellite project of SibSAU student

This paper describes a students’ project of nano-satellite “SibCube”. The paper defines the goals (there is description of educational and science goals) and tasks of the students’ project “SibCube”. There is also an analysis of the physical conditions and technical problems related to weight and size limitations of CubeSAT satellites. This paper also includes identification key problems of CubeSAT satellites research activity and ways to solve these key problems. It should be noted that there is such a research activity as a new element basis testing and new space technology testing. In particular, a board system of control that is executed on the “system on chip ” technology and equipment that support the telecommunication standard SpaceWire are the current goal of testing for “SibCube” student project. A testing of application of the new element basis and the new space technology is topical as a result of a conservatism of the space industry. What is more, it might be noted that there is a limitation of the home produced element basis in the Russian Federation. Nowadays, it is popular to speak about an import substitution. The necessity of having the own element basis is clear for such large field of the Russian Federation as the satellite construction and the space industry on the whole. However, testing of this basis is required for using this element basis because spacecraft developers prefer to use an element basis with a high reliability that have already been tested in a space conditions. What is more, the concept of modular and scalable performance spacecraft platform as well as techniques to achieve modularity and scalability of an architecture for CubеSAT construction and board system of control at a construction and systems engineering levels are included in this paper.