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UNIVERSITY SATELLITES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM M.I. Panasyuk1, A.M. Amelyushkin, V. Angelopoulos2, V .V . B engh in1’3,1.A . B rilkov1’3, G .K . G aripov1, B.A. Khrenov1, P.A. K lim ov1, V.I. O sed lo1,1.H . Park4, V.L. Petrov1, V .V . R adchenko1, Y .Y . Shprits2, S.I. Svertilov1, V.I. T u lupov1, N.N. V edenkin1,1.V . Y ash in 1 1Skobeltsyn Institute o f Nuclear Physics o fMoscow State University, Moscow, Russia 2University o f California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 3Institute fo r medical and biological problems, Moscow, Russia 4Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea Abstracts. Moscow State University has experience in developing and constructing small scientific and educational satellites. Young scientists, doctoral, and graduate students are participating in the development of the satellites and processing scientific data from the experiments. Not so far ago the program for satellites development was started in the MSU. The “Universitetsky-Tatiana-2” satellite was launched in September, 2009. Its main scientific goal - the detection of transient light effects in the atmosphere and the ionosphere - was raised after the “Universitetsky-Tatiana” experiment with UV detector. Now two more university satellites are being developing - “Lomonosov” (“MVL- 300”) and “YouthSat” satellites. The “Lomonosov” is planned to be launched in the end of 2011, its main scientific goals are: - The study of the high-energy CR and their sources; - The on-line monitoring of the gamma-ray bursts with simultaneous study o f their effects in ionosphere and atmosphere; - And the investigation of the radiation environment o f high-inclination orbits and Radiation Belts study. The project of the Russian-Indian scientific-educational satellite “YouthSat” is developed in cooperation with the Indian Organization of Space Research. The Russian party - M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University - provides the development of the scientific equipment SolRad for the studies of the solar activity. All the Russian equipment now is successfully mounted onboard and passed the preparation tests. The satellite is now ready to launch. Also this article presents the new nanosatellites development and launch program. This program starts in the Moscow University and it is assumed to cooperate many educational and research centers all over the world. History From the second soviet satellite till nowadays the equipment manufactured at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University has been installed on every scientific spaceship and on many spaceships of special purpose. This equipment was aimed to explore the radiation belts of the Earth, galactic and solar cosmic rays, hot magnetospheric plasma as well as radiation conditions onboard the piloted and non-piloted spaceships (Logachev, 1998). In 2002 the first scientific-educational microsatellite “Kolibri-2000” was launched. One of its primary goals was to attract school and university students to attend the space investigations (). This experience gave the MSU an opportunity to develop a first university satellite. Universitetsky-Tatiana On the threshold of 250th anniversary of the Moscow State University, January 20, 2005, The “Universitetsky-Tatyana” was launched into a circular polar orbit with an altitude of -1000 km and inclination -83°. The satellite axis was directed along the “satellite-Earth” radius-vector (zenith-nadir). 140 “P h ysics o f Auroral P h en om en a ”, Proc. XXXIII A n n u a l Sem inar , A patity, pp. 1 4 0 -1 4 3 , 2011 © Kola Science Centre, Russian Academy of Science, 2011 When moving along this orbit, the satellite regularly crossed (in the northern and southern hemispheres) the following main structures of the Earth’s magnetosphere: the outer and inner radiation belts, the polar caps, and auroral regions. Fig. 1. The emblem o f the “Universitetsky-Tatyana ” satellite. Polar Geophysical Institute