The Kolibri-2000 microsatellite is an educational microsatellite
mission. It was launched from the Progress-M1 7 cargo
freighter supply craft to the International Space Station, on it way back to Earth, into a
385 km × 388 km orbit inclined at 51.6 degrees. The spacecraft was designed and
manufactured by the Special Design Office of space instrument engineering, Space Research
Institute of the Russian Academy of sciences, in collaboration with local space industry.
The spacecraft mission is educational, and radio amateur frequencies are employed to
return data to participating educational institutions in Obninsk (Russia) and Sydney
(Australia). Instruments on board include a flux-gate magnetometer, and a particle and
electric field analyser. The spacecraft measures 1.25 m high with a diameter of 0.5 m,
carries a 2 m gravity gradient boom and four deployable solar panels.
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