According to him, a group of the School's representatives is heading for Baikonur to witness the Dnieper booster launch.
The Unisat-3 satellite weighing 10 kilograms was designed and assembled entirely by our lecturers and students within the framework of the Gauss special program. It mounts some scientific equipment, in particular, a magnetometer to measure the Earth's magnetic field on the orbit", Mr. Teofilatto told RIA Novosti.
"This is the third satellite of the Unisat series that we have launched to the space for research and educational purposes with support of the Russian-Ukrainian Kosmotrans international space company. Noteworthy is the fact that this purely peaceful device will be orbited by the Dnieper booster, based on the technologies of the world-famous SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles", he pointed out.
The Unisat-3 launch will cost 150,000 Euro given by the Italian Space Agency. In November 2005 the Airspace Engineering School staff are planning to orbit their new brainchild Unisat-4.
Professor Teofilatto stressed that the Gauss program wedded with the context of the recently established contacts between the capital region of Latium and the Rosaviakosmos.
Moscow Region Governor Boris Gromov and Latium President Francesco Storace signed the protocol on bilateral partnership development in Rome on Tuesday. The document emphasizes "the importance and relevance of cooperation in space research and development of scientific exchange in this sphere, involving universities and research centers".
