The Moscow Aviation Institute announced that its experts were able to develop electric motors A statement issued by the institute stated, “The engineers and experts of the institute have been able to develop an electric motor dedicated to working with CubeSat nanosatellites whose dimensions do not exceed 10/10/10 cm, and their weight does not exceed 1.3 kg.”
According to the “RT” website, according to the statement, “the new engine has no analogue among similar domestic or foreign engines, and its total thrust rate (the percentage of energy or fuel consumption in relation to the required speed) exceeds the thrust rate of similar engines by nearly ten times.”
Experts at the university pointed out that “most of the current CubeSat satellites are not equipped with thrust engines because of their small size, and they are delivered to Earth orbits via rockets or spacecraft, and the presence of an engine in these satellites will greatly increase their capabilities and expand their orbit around the Earth.”
For his part, the engineer and expert at the institute, Svyatoslav Gordeyev, said: “Small satellites operating in Earth’s orbits constantly lose their height due to gravitational factors, and the presence of engines in these satellites will solve this problem and increase their life span in space.”