RUSSIAN-AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH SCHOOL MICRO-SATELLITE "KOLIBRI-2000": BASIC RULES of DEVELOPMENT

A characteristic feature of the project "Kolibri-2000" is the solution of the task of using micro-satellites in the interests of improving school education and involving schoolchildren in space technologies.

They may be engaged perform certain scientific programs, making high accuracy measurements of physical parameters of space in the immediate vecinity of the station MIR or the International Space Station (ISS).

Now, when a research program may be implemented aboard a school micro-satellite, it becomes not only expedient, but also justified to encourage schoolchildren to participate: 1) in recording scientific information, in its processing, interpretation, archiving; 2) in its exchanging with partners and in making much higher the educational level in cousmonautics and space physics, as former passive tasks are added with genuine regular work easily controlled by professionals: supervisors and scientists.

A radioline in the radio amateur frequency range is employed on Kolibri-2000 to dump scientific payload data to the participants in the Project.

This also offers an opportunity to any radio amateur to get - in a standard form - round-the-clock transmitted general voice information about the Project and to listen to a space hymn.