Sputnix
Sputnix is a privatelyowned satellite construction company headquartered at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. It is one of Russia's first private space companies. It was founded in 2011 by ScanEx.
History
Sputnix was established in 2011 by the ScanEx satellite technology department, which developed the orientation and stabilization system of the Chibis-M microsatellite by order of the Russian Space Research Institute. It is based at the Skolkovo Innovation Center.In 2013, Sputnix received a license from the Russian Federal Space Agency to carry out space activities and began to create microsatellite technology-demonstrator TabletSat-Aurora.
On June 19, 2014, Tabletsat-Aurora was launched into Low Earth orbit on a Ukrainian launch vehicle, the Dnepr rocket implementing a contract between Sputnix and ISC Kosmotras. In 2017, Sputnix developed the Orbiсraft-Pro satellite platform based on the international CubeSat standard. The OrbiСraft-Pro platform is a design kit that allows the assembly of various configurations of nanosatellites with different payloads. The scientific and educational satellites SiriusSat-1 and SiriusSat-2 were created with the OrbiСraft-Pro platform, and launched from the International Space Station on August 15, 2018.