АСОД/АИС (VDES/AIS) – спутники для судоходства

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/101001-hisdesat-stake-com-dev-ais.html

Fri, 1 October, 2010
Hisdesat Takes Stake in Com Dev's AIS Venture
By Peter B. de Selding

 PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Hisdesat of Spain, which sells commercial X-band satellite capacity to military and civil government agencies, has taken a 27 percent equity stake in exactEarth Ltd., a division of Com Dev of Canada that is developing a global space-based maritime vessel-tracking system, Hisdesat and Com Dev announced Sept. 30.

 The all-cash investment of 15 million Canadian dollars ($14.6 million) gives exactEarth an implied value of 55.5 million Canadian dollars. The company, in which Cambridge, Ontario-based Com Dev retains a 73 percent stake, has been slowed by delays in launches of two satellites for its service, which began trial operations in August, and is expected to report no more than 2 million Canadian dollars in sales for its current fiscal year, which ends Oct. 31, according to Com Dev estimates.

 Com Dev said it has already invested 24 million Canadian dollars of the 35 million Canadian dollars it has set aside for exactEarth.

 The Hisdesat investment is the second trans-Atlantic tie-up on space-based Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) in less than a week. On Sept. 28, Orbcomm of Ft. Lee, N.J., announced it had contracted with OHB Technology of Germany and OHB's LuxSpace subsidiary of Luxembourg to provide two small satellites for Orbcomm's AIS service, which is expected to accelerate with the launch, set for 2011, of Orbcomm's 18 AIS-equipped machine-to-machine messaging satellites.

 The 18-nation European Space Agency (ESA) is positioning itself in the middle of the emerging AIS business with a program that will evaluate the Com Dev and Orbcomm technologies against requirements that ESA is assembling with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA).

 In an indication of how promising some European governments view space-based AIS, ESA in less than a year has struck a deal with the European maritime-safety regulator, crafted an AIS preparatory development program and raised some 12.5 million euros ($17 million) to start work, according to Amnon Ginati, head of ESA's integrated and telecommunications-related department.

 In a Sept. 30 interview here during the 61st International Astronautical Congress, Ginati said ESA is not seeking to create a government-backed AIS service to compete with Com Dev or Orbcomm. Instead, the agency will refine the requirements of users, particularly those of government agencies including coastal surveillance authorities, and determine whether Orbcomm and Com Dev are able to meet those needs.

 Of particular interest will be ESA's conclusions about whether the U.S. or the Canadian company, or both, can generate an orderly flow of usable ship-identification data from the radio-frequency chaos of hundreds of ship-based AIS beacons, all broadcasting in the same frequency, entering into each satellite's moving coverage area.

 Ginati said Luxembourg and France are the two biggest investors in the ESA program, under which the agency expects to solicit bids on two 18-month AIS system evaluation contracts late this year. Two consortia are likely to be selected for the work by next March, with each contract valued at around 3.5 million euros. The results will be presented at a conference of ESA government ministers for review of a full-scale AIS program. Canada, which is an associate member of ESA, is also participating in the program.

 "We certainly do not want to re-invent the wheel or duplicate what is being done" by Com Dev or Orbcomm, Ginati said. "What we want to do, with our ESA and European Commission partners, is validate what the market is offering. We will invite Com Dev and Orbcomm to give us, on a confidential basis, results of their system tests, and we will compare their advertised performance with the actual performance. So they will have to show us what they have."

 Ginati said it is possible that ESA and the European Commission will agree to fund their own space-based AIS demonstration mission. ESA is already comparing two AIS technologies on its section of the international space station, one developed in Norway and the other by LuxSpace.

 Madrid-based Hisdesat markets X-band capacity on two in-orbit satellites as part of the Xtar LLC company it co-owns with Loral Space and Communications of New York. Com Dev said the Spanish investment in exactEarth will be used by the AIS subsidiary for its "ongoing business operations and the deployment of additional space and ground infrastructure."

 Two small AIS satellite payloads built for exactEarth are scheduled for launch in the coming months.

 In a Sept. 30 statement, Hisdesat Chief Executive Roberto Lopez Fernandez said his company views its exactEarth investment as a "long-term commitment to support our business interests in global surveillance. We have spent considerable time evaluating the exactEarth AIS technology and the company's business plan ... [and we] are pleased to be strategically aligned with Com Dev in capitalizing on the space-based maritime surveillance opportunity this technology represents."

 Hisdesat is 43 percent owned by Spanish satellite fleet operator Hispasat, 30 percent by the Spanish government, 15 percent by EADS Casa Espacio, 7 percent by electronics and information technology company Indra, and 5 percent by Spanish aerospace engineering company Sener.

[Salo]

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/satellite-assist-ships-distress-648

Satellite to assist ships in distress
September 27th, 2010

Sept. 26: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will soon join a select group of institutions providing rescue and relief support to ships in distress across the globe.

India's Resourcesat-2, the remote sensing satellite to be launched this December will carry on board a state-of-the-art Space-Based Automatic Identification System (AIS-SB) meant to track ships and report if they are in trouble, said an Isro spokesman.

"The payload was built by COMDEV of Canada, a group known for its expertise in space engineering and hardware," S. Satish, director (public relations and publications) told Deccan Chronicle. "The AIS-SB will monitor the movement of all ships registered with us on a round-the-clock basis irrespective of their location. We will be able to offer instant rescue and relief operations to the ships if there is any accident."

He said this will be the first time an instrument of this kind will be used in an Indian satellite.

Mr Satish also pointed out that Isro's move to have a space-based automatic identification system of its own was in response to the rapid growth of the shipping industry globally. "Any distress call will be picked up by the AIS-SB and relayed to the agencies concerned for immediate action," he added.

Bhaskar Kunhi, chief pilot, Cochin Port Trust, welcomed the AIS-SB. "Our sailors are dependent on INMARSAT, the international marine satellites for all communication purposes. The AIS-SB will make it easy for our ships to communicate much faster," he said.

Mr Satish pointed out that a similar space-based automatic identification system had played a pivotal role in providing security for the Vancouver Olympics held earlier this year.

[Sergio]

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

shtuka ochen daze nuzhnaja i besplatnaja.

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Только для наблюдателей за домашним компом.

[Sergio]

Только для наблюдателей за домашним компом.

Неа, господин Винитский, не только.
есть много компаний и служб обслуживаюших суда (от бункеровки и ремонта до экспедиторов и стивидоров), которым как то в лом платит за AIS LIVE, а знать точный подход надо. теоретически их оповещает морской агент, что, ммм.,  не всегда получается. )))

Кстати с появлением MARINETRAFFIC им стали пользоваться и него же ссылатса ВСЕ портовые диспечера; в диспечерской Муугаского Порта (Новоталлиннский по нашему) отделный такой плоский экран на стене. сильно думаю что в каком нибудь питере или бремене тоже хотя бы для информации.

P.S. ну вообще немного вы правы, везде компы стоят домашние. Ну и ночью - посмотреть - уже выежать или ещё поспать можно.

[Дмитрий Виницкий]

Подписка на юридически значимые данные для профессиональных терминалов - за денежки. Вы не знали? Как и приёмник-передатчик на судне, кстати.

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/110325-race-tracking-ships-space.html

Fri, 25 March, 2011
Neck & Neck Race To Be First In Tracking Ships From Space
By Peter B. de Selding

 PARIS — Com Dev of Canada and Orbcomm of the United States are racing each other to launch satellites this year to establish position in what both believe will be a large and profitable new business in providing satellite-based ship monitoring for global coastal authorities, with both hoping to be first to market.

 Both Cambridge, Ont.-based Com Dev and Orbcomm of Fort Lee, N.J., have faced launch delays on their selected U.S., Russian and Indian rockets that have cost them revenue in the near term. What both are now counting on is that the fresh launch dates in mid-2011 will be respected, allowing them to enter the automatic identification system (AIS) business as soon as possible.

 Orbcomm views AIS as a key but not essential element of its machine-to-machine data messaging business. For Com Dev, AIS is the sole reason the company created a new business division, called exactEarth LLC.

 The exactEarth subsidiary not only allows satellite equipment maker Com Dev to take advantage of what the company says is its patented AIS technology. It also gives the company a services business whose profit margin is more likely to be 60 percent or better, compared to the satellite-equipment business, whose profit margins are closer to 25 percent.

 Com Dev officials have long said their now patented technology for "message de-collision" is superior to what Orbcomm uses. Com Dev's technology is based on bypassing on-board processing on the satellites in favor of sending down raw message data to ground terminals. These terminals then separate hundreds of thousands of ship messages — up to 1.5 million per day per satellite — and deliver them to coastal authorities.

 With International Maritime Organization regulations now mandating that ships weighing more than 300 metric tons carry on-board terminals to beam ship identity, cargo, speed and heading data to the coast, satellite-based AIS requires no special technology added to ship fleets. Instead, it extends what coastal radars now do, permitting coastal authorities to review data on all ships in their region even when the vessels are in mid-ocean.

 The U.S. Coast Guard gave Orbcomm an initial contract to test the Orbcomm AIS service, a contract that ended in late 2010 when the last of six AIS-equipped satellites failed in orbit.

 Orbcomm has contracted with LuxSpace of Luxembourg to launch two small AIS-equipped spacecraft this year, with the first two of its own second-generation satellites set for launch as piggyback payloads on a Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket also scheduled for launch this year.

 Com Dev, which has been using two small satellites in orbit owned by SpaceQuest Ltd. of Fairfax, Va., recently contracted with SpaceQuest for two additional satellites. These are scheduled for launch on a Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr rocket sometime this summer.

 The first two of Com Dev's own AIS satellites, which have a longer in-orbit life, more power and more capacity to digest ship data, are scheduled for launch on Russian and Indian rockets this year as piggyback payloads.

 If these launches all occur as planned, Com Dev by this fall will have six satellites in orbit capable of digesting 6 million AIS messages per day, according to Peter Mabson, president of exactEarth.

 The Canadian government became exactEarth's first customer earlier this month with an initial order valued at 1.57 million Canadian dollars ($1.36 million) as part of a contract with options for future orders that could bring its total value to 4.7 million Canadian dollars.

 Com Dev and Orbcomm are not alone in seeing a big future business in space-based AIS. Several companies and government agencies in Europe, including the 18-nation European Space Agency, have begun work on their own systems.

 But none appears to have invested as much, nor gone as far toward establishing a commercial service, as have Com Dev and Orbcomm.

 Orbcomm is equipping all 18 of its second-generation satellites with AIS terminals. After the first two to be launched by SpaceX this year, the company hopes eight more will fly aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle nine months later.

 Com Dev, which has always said its technology allows for a smaller in-orbit constellation, is negotiating for an AIS payload aboard Canada's Radarsat Constellation program of radar Earth observation satellites. But the company is keeping its spending on exactEarth to the planned 28 million Canadian dollars, including the most recent contract with SpaceQuest.

 In a March 14 conference call with investors, Mabson said Com Dev and exactEarth expect at least one more customer to join the Canadian government this year. Satellite operator Hisdesat of Spain has made an equity investment in exactEarth and is marketing the service in Spanish-speaking countries.

 Com Dev Chief Executive Mike Pley said during the conference call that exactEarth has been testing the service with more than 30 prospective customers. Mabson conceded that some of these customers are awaiting the launch of more satellites before making a commitment.

 Orbcomm Chief Executive Marc J. Eisenberg said the same thing during Orbcomm's March 16 conference call.

[URS]

В 4-м номере журнала "Новости навигации" за 2010 год в статье "19-я сессия совета дальневосточной радионавигационной службы (ФЕРНС) написано: "Россия сделала презентацию о разработке спутника АИС".
Кто-нибудь в курсе темы? Название, разработчик, дата запуска?

[Sharicoff]

Com Dev Expects Full AIS Fleet Deployment This Year
http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/110610-comdev-ais-fleet-deployment.html

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/110610-comdev-ais-fleet-deployment.html

Com Dev has another AIS payload slated to fly on a Russian rocket whose launch has been delayed again and is now expected to occur this autumn.

Com Dev has ordered two of its own satellites from SpaceQuest, and both of these are scheduled for launch this summer.

[Salo]

Лето:

7 июля (ПО) – Сiч-2, NX, NigeriaSat-2, Rasat, Edusat, AprizeSat-5, AprizeSat-6, БПА-2 – Днепр – Домбаровский 13

Осень:

сентябрь (ПО) – Канопус-В №1, БКА, МКА-ФКИ №1 (Зонд-ПП), ADS-1B, TET-1 – Союз-ФГ/Фрегат – Байконур 31/6

[Salo]

Презентация по AprizeSat:
http://www.spacequest.com/Articles/SpaceQuest-TEXAS-III-Presentation.pdf

[Salo]

ADS-1B:
http://www.sstl.co.uk/current-projects

Customer: COM DEV

Mission objective: ADS-1B will form part of the COM DEV AIS constellation used by ships and traffic to, for example, monitor ship movements through busy shipping channels and harbours and to provide information on global shipping movements

Satellite platform: SSTL-100

http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/ads-1b.htm

ADS-1B will form part of the exactEarth (COM DEV) AIS constellation to monitor ship movements through busy shipping channels and harbours and to provide information on global shipping movements. It is a follow-up mission to the CanX 6/NTS satellite.

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a self-organizing TMDA radiocommunication system used for the identification and location of maritime vessels. AIS transponders are required by the International Maritime Organization on all vessels over 300 tonnes and all passenger vessels. Communication is line-of-sight, allowing countries to monitor ships within about 50 km of their shores. A space-based platform allows monitoring of much larger areas, especially in areas that are difficult to monitor through more traditional base station means.

Nation:   Canada
Type / Application:   Communication
Operator:   exactEarth / COM DEV
Contractors:   SSTL
Configuration:   Microsat-100

[X]

ADS-1B:
http://www.sstl.co.uk/current-projects

Customer: COM DEV

 monitor ship movements through busy shipping channels and harbours and to provide information on global shipping movements

dla etogo est VTS - Vessel Traffic Service.

http://portal.liikennevirasto.fi/portal/page/portal/f/ammattiliikenteen_palvelut/meriliikenteen_ohjaus/gofrep/GOFREP_web.pdf - izobretenije 2 malenkih no gordih dla otslezhivanija prolivov nefti s tankerov iz pitera.

podobnoe est i v la manshe i v kile, i v datskih prolivah.
na figa v AIS sputniki (krome GPS)

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/110809-strong-quarter-has-orbcomm-feeling-bullish.html

Specifically, he said Orbcomm increased its revenue from its own satellite subscribers, independent of the StarTrak purchase. In addition, he said, the performance so far in 2011 does not include Orbcomm's business in providing the U.S. Coast Guard and other maritime authorities with Automatic Information System (AIS) data on ship movement. This business will return once the company gets its new satellites in orbit.

 Orbcomm's AIS service had been providing some $700,000 in quarterly revenue before the spacecraft providing it failed in late 2010. Orbcomm's core constellation of satellites, which remains healthy in orbit, does not have an AIS capability.

 Eisenberg said a satellite Orbcomm is leasing from LuxSpace of Luxembourg to provide AIS ship identification for maritime authorities is scheduled for launch Sept. 25.

 All of Orbcomm's 18 second-generation satellites, under construction by Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev., include AIS capability. One or two of these satellites are scheduled for launch in late November aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket whose main mission will be to place SpaceX's Dragon international space station logistics capsule into orbit.

[Salo]

http://www.innovation.public.lu/en/success-stories/2011/luxspace/index.html

First satellite "made in Luxembourg"
17-11-2011

On 12 October 2011, VesselSat1, the first satellite built entirely in Luxembourg was placed in orbit for ORBCOMM Inc. Dedicated to tracking ships (the AIS system), it was created and assembled in less than a year by the engineers of LuxSpace s

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/120619-luxspace-ais-european-authorities.html

Tue, 19 June, 2012
LuxSpace To Provide AIS Data to European Authorities
By Peter B. de Selding
 
 PARIS — LuxSpace will provide satellite-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) data on maritime traffic to the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) under a one-year contract valued at up to $625,000 plus options, the Betzdorf, Luxembourg, company announced June 19.

 LuxSpace, which is owned by OHB AG of Bremen, Germany, operates two small satellites, Vesselsat 1 and Vesselsat 2, in low Earth orbit. The satellites are used by Orbcomm of Ft. Lee, N.J., as part of that company's AIS business while Orbcomm awaits the launch of its 18 second-generation satellites, all of which will carry AIS transponders.

 The satellites collect data broadcast by ships on their whereabouts, heading, cargo and ownership and forward it to maritime authorities.

 In a June 19 interview, LuxSpace Managing Director Jochen Harms said LuxSpace and Orbcomm are acting in partnership to fulfill the EMSA contract.

 He said the contract is not based on the future Orbcomm satellites but could be expanded once these spacecraft are operational. The second-generation Orbcomm fleet is scheduled for launch aboard Falcon 9 rockets operated by Space Exploration Technologies of Hawthorne, Calif.

 A prototype Orbcomm second-generation satellite is scheduled for launch as a piggyback payload aboard the next Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon cargo module to the international space station. The launch is scheduled for later this year, with the remaining Orbcomm satellites to be launched aboard an undetermined number of Falcon 9s in 2013 and 2014.

 One Vesselsat satellite is in polar orbit, the other in equatorial orbit, a configuration that Harms said delivers higher-frequency revisits of a given area. He said LuxSpace won the EMSA work following a competition with exactEarth Ltd. of Canada, which is owned by Com Dev of Canada and Hispasat of Spain.

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/satellite_telecom/120810-orbcomm-competition-ais.html

Fri, 10 August, 2012
Orbcomm Welcomes Competition in AIS Market

 PARIS — Satellite machine-to-machine messaging provider Orbcomm Inc. on Aug. 9 reported sharply higher revenue and profit for the six months ending June 30 and said its ship-identification business has suffered no erosion fr om competitors entering the Automatic Identification Service (AIS) market.

 Ft. Lee, N.J.-based Orbcomm said its AIS service, currently provided by two small satellites owned by LuxSpace of Luxembourg, is set for a major increase in business once Orbcomm's own AIS-equipped second-generation satellites are launched starting next year.

 In a conference call with investors, Orbcomm Chief Executive Marc J. Eisenberg said the appearance of competitors in the AIS market likely will end up whetting customers' appetite for Orbcomm's service rather than taking business from it.

 Principal among those competitors is exacEarth of Canada, which is counting on a smaller constellation of satellites to provide global ship-location and identification services to the world's coastal authorities.

 Eisenberg said Orbcomm's 18 second-generation satellites, plus the two microsatellites already in orbit, will provide a service that cannot be equaled by companies with just a few spacecraft. Com Dev of Canada, which owns a majority stake in exactView, has disputed that point, saying its technology for identifying the signals from thousands of ships is superior to what Orbcomm is using and does not require a large constellation.

 "We have always said [AIS] is a $1 million or $2 million business with one or two satellites," Eisenberg said. "What really makes the offer compelling is when you've got 20 satellites delivering real-time service with Earth stations all over the globe. We've always said that was our competitive advantage."

 Orbcomm's second-generation satellites are being built by Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev., under a $117 million contract. Boeing Argon ST of Fairfax, Va., is providing the satellites' electronic payloads.

 The launch of the second-generation constellation, which in addition to AIS will provide Orbcomm customers with higher data throughput, has been delayed for multiple reasons during the last two years and is now dependent on the launch schedule of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX is launching the satellites under a $46.6 million contract.

 Sierra Nevada on Aug. 9 said a prototype second-generation Orbcomm satellite has successfully completed testing and is ready for launch on the next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will also be carrying SpaceX's Dragon cargo canister to the international space station under a NASA contract.

 Eisenberg said that launch is scheduled for October. The 17 other satellites will be carried into low Earth orbit aboard two or three Falcon 9 vehicles expected to launch in 2013 and 2014, he said.

 For the six months ending June 30, Orbcomm reported total revenue of $32.2 million, up 72 percent from the same period a year ago. Service revenue, which is key to Orbcomm's long-term success, was up 46 percent, to $23.9 million.

 Orbcomm has made two purchases of small companies in the past 12 months. When these companies' sales are removed from the equation, Orbcomm's service revenue still grew by 18 percent year on year.

 Orbcomm's operating income, at $4.1 million for the six months ending June 30, compares to an operating loss of $762,000 a year ago.

 Eisenberg said that in the three months ending June 30, the company booked more than $400,000 in AIS-related revenue, a figure he said should rise by about $100,000 every three months in the period between now and when Orbcomm begins launching its second-generation spacecraft. By the end of the year, Eisenberg said, the AIS business alone should be producing annual revenue equivalent to at least $2 million.

 "We're going to be adding eight or nine satellites next year, and that's when [the AIS business] becomes significant," Eisenberg said.

 Also contributing to the revenue increase was a larger subscriber base. Orbcomm counts as subscribers the number of modules deployed and generating revenue. As of June 30, the company had 715,000 subscribers, an 18 percent increase over wh ere the count stood a year ago.

 Much of Orbcomm's business comes from equipment manufacturers such as Caterpillar and Kumatsu that install Orbcomm gear in their heavy machinery.

 The second-generation constellation will operate in an orbit that is inclined at 52 degrees relative to the equator, compared to the 45-degree inclination of Orbcomm's current 27 satellites. The higher inclination should give the company better access to markets in Europe, Eisenberg said.

[ZOOR]

Не везет Orbcommовцам

Ракета Falcon 9 не смогла вывести спутник Orbcomm OG2 на орбиту
09.10.2012

В ходе полета начавшегося вчера частного космического полета возникли неполадки. Из-за сбоя одного из двигателей ракета-носитель Falcon 9 не смогла вывести на нужную орбиту телекоммуникационный спутник Orbcomm OG2, запущенный вместе с грузовиком Dragon в качестве попутной нагрузки. В результате спутник оказался на орбите, которая находится ниже запланированной.

Во время запуска один из девяти двигателей включился раньше времени, из-за чего ступень ракеты проработала на 30 секунд раньше. Но, несмотря на это, корабль Dragon был выведен на целевую орбиту. Специалисты компании Orbcomm поддерживают связь с аппаратом и продолжают попытки вывести спутник на нужную орбиту с помощью собственной двигательной установки спутника.

http://slon.ru/fast/future/raketa-falcon-9-ne-smogla-vyvesti-sputnik-orbcomm-og2-na-orbitu-837273.xhtml

12.10.2012 / 09:17   Спутник Orbcomm OG2 сгорел в атмосфере


      Запущенный в понедельник в качестве попутного груза корабля Dragon (CRS-1), но вышедший на нерасчетную орбиту, телекоммуникационный спутник Orbcomm OG2 10 октября в 06:12 UTC (10:12 мск) вошел в плотные слои земной атмосферы и сгорел. По заявлению представителей компании Orbcomm, Inc. в ходе полета была решена лишь малая часть задач миссии, поэтому они намерены потребовать от компании SpaceX компенсацию за постигшую их неудачу.

     - К.И.

[Salo]

Liss пишет:

"Даурия Аэроспейс" завершает тестирование программного обеспечения
малого спутника DX-1.
Первая частная космическая компания России создает и готовит к запуску осенью 2013 года малый космический аппарат DX-1.
Основной целью создания спутника DX-1 является отработка технологий и программного обеспечения, наличие которых позволит компании в дальнейшем создавать новые поколения космических аппаратов. Помимо экспериментальных функций, спутник будет выполнять и прикладную задачу - осуществлять мониторинг положения судов в Мировом океане. Эта функция реализуется при помощи прибора автоматизированной идентификационной системы (АИС), устанавливаемого на борту космического аппарата.
В соответствие с программой испытаний завершается тестирование программного обеспечения бортового комплекса управления (БКУ). Ведется отработка взаимодействия приборов и исполнительных органов системы ориентации и стабилизации аппарата (двигатели-маховики, магнитные катушки), измерительных приборов (солнечные и звездные датчики, гироскопы, магнитометры), полезной нагрузки (АИС), блоков управления системами энергоснабжения и обеспечения теплового режима. Также на заключительной стадии находятся электрические испытания космического аппарата.
Запуск космического аппарата DX-1 планируется осуществить в сентябре 2013 года, попутным запуском с КА "Метеор-М №2" ракетой "Союз-2-1Б" с разгонным блоком "Фрегат".