Online conference Doing Space in UA will take place on October 10, 2020. Doing Space in UA is an event for Ukrainian engineers, developers, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts who want to build a career and create business in the space industry. Speakers: Volodymyr Usov (Head of the State Space Agency); Natalia Borotkanych (Noosphere space projects coordinator); Dmytro Khmara (Co-founder of the startup Space Cossacks); Roman Mikhalchishin (Design and Integration Engineer, Isar Aerospace). Participation is free. Register online following the link: http://doingspace.com.ua

Ukrainian Youth Aerospace Association “Suzirya” helps to open new secrets of the Universe to curious Ukrainians. This is the only public organization in Ukraine that deals with aerospace education for young people. Director of the Kyiv branch of the National Center for Aerospace Education of Youth named after A. M. Makarov and Executive Director of the Ukrainian Youth Aerospace Association “Suzirya” Sergii Yatskov exclusively for “Space Ukraine” tells about work with the youth and popularization of space in Ukraine.

System to launch satellites into low Earth orbit — that is a simple name of the system designed to launch satellites to the low Earth orbit without necessity to use cosmodrome. This system consists from platform (copter + aerostat) and a rocket. System was designed by Dmytro Khmara and Alexander Lozinsky. 

The Fund and also NGO “Odyssey Foundation” exist almost a year. Today we talk to “Odyssey Foundation” founders – Anton Malynovsky and Myroslav Vasylenko. They have already hosted 4 “Odyssey Space Meetups”, organized “Space week” and a tour to Dnipro city – the center of space technologies in Ukraine. Also “Odyssey Foundation” is conducting the contest of space projects “ActInSpace”.

Anton Malynovsky and Myroslav Vasylenko

Space research lab of Rivne Minor academy of sciences (RMANUM) lets young people to work on space exploration. Laboratory is lead by Eugene Malynovsky, with the help of engineer Vitaliy Yanishevsky. Thanks to RMANUM pupils of Rivne can observe deep space objects, learn about Earth atmosphere, meteors, satellites, astronomical optics.

Eugene Malynovsky

Today we will talk with Vitaliy Shevchuk, founder of the project “Interesting science” (“Tsikava nauka”). Vitaliy solves the problem of the lack of high-quality Ukrainian-language content about natural, physical, chemical processes both on Earth and in space.

Dmytro Khmara works as a programmer in EPAM and dreams together with his friend Oleksandr Lozynsky to develop a platform for launching rockets from air. Inventors are convinced that the launching of small satellites can be made 10 times cheaper than it costs now. Also launches can become more affordable, since air launches don’t require launch sites on land. Dmytro calls his team “Space cossacks”, they work on the project in their spare time and at their own expense. To better fit their needs for air launches, “Space cossacks” re-engineered the copter changing its classic form. Now the team is developing engine that will use methane gas instead of kerosene.

American writer Ralph Emerson once said: “Invention breeds invention.” The validity of this formula has been confirmed thousands of times. As soon as bright minds gather together, they start to co-create. And that’s what happened at Dnipro Space Valley Hackathon in early October, that took place at National Aerospace Educational Center of Ukrainian Youth.

Victor Serbin is founder and CEO of SETS (Space Electric Thruster Systems). His company develops electric rocket engines (EREs) for positioning  satellites in orbit and moving satellites from a low reference to a geostationary orbit. SETS is a part of Noosphere association. SETS has its own laboratory in Dnipro to conduct research and development. “Space Ukraine” talked to Victor about his company and his vision on how young scientists and engineers can gain experience and establish a space start-up.

Investor and entrepreneur Maxim Tkachenko is actively developing Ukrainian space industry, while his team is working on Ukrainian version of EmDrive engine. In his native Dnipro city Maxim creates a cluster of space industry enterprises to help them sell products on global markets. Maxim believes that space is one of the greatest opportunities in the history of humankind.