Aist 1 (russian: Аист 1, meaning ''Stork 1'') is a Russian technology demonstration satellite which was launched in December 2013. Aist 1 is operated by the Samara Aerospace University, who constructed it in partnership with Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center, TsSKB Progress. It is the second launched Aist satellite, following Aist 2's April 2013 launch.

Satellite

Aist1's primary technological mission objectives are demonstrating its systems and satellite bus, bus and investigating how to minimize acceleration caused by microgravity, microgravitational effects. It will also measure micrometeoroid and microscopic orbital debris impacts, and test new sensors and techniques designed to study Earth's magnetic field. Aist 1 was launched aboard the maiden flight of TsSKB Progress' Volga (rocket stage), Volga upper stage equipped Soyuz-2-1v carrier rocket, from Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 at 12:30 UTC on 28 December 2013, following a series of delays. The same rocket also deployed two SKRL-756 radar calibration satellites. Aist separated from the upper stage at 14:10 UTC, 100 minutes after liftoff.

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