The MASCOT module successfully completed a space mission and delivered soil to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu. Had Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute not made heat pipes for the device, “Hayabusa2” would not have been able to survey the asteroid for more than a year and collect samples.
Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute and Northwestern Polytechnical University have signed an agreement to establish a Joint Sino-Ukrainian Space Science Laboratory. It will consist of two laboratories on the basis of both universities. The Institute of Aerospace Technologies together
At Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute it is being developed new nano-satellites of the PolyITAN series of CubeSat format. They will be used to study space and processes occurring on Earth. One of the satellites - PolyITAN-3 - is planned to be launched into Earth orbit in 2021.
On the 10th of April at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” a round table discussion “Space activities of Ukraine in the near future: priorities, scenarios, challenges” was held.
