MAI Student from South Korea Presented a Research at the Tsiolkovsky Readings

October 11, 2019

Yoon Sung Wook, MAI master’s degree student of the Institute № 6 “Aerospace” from South Korea, became a part of the scientific group, that has presented its research at the 54th Scientific Readings in memory of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga.Yoon Sung Wook has long been a member of the MAI family, since he first learned Russian language at the Pre-university program, then completed the MAI undergraduate program, and now he is on the last year of the master’s study. His scientific research concerns design of small spacecraft.“I like space systems, vehicles and rocket launchers. In my opinion, Russia can offer a high level of such studies. When I was a child, I saw on the TV, how woman-astronaut from South Korea had training at the Gagarin Research&Test Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia and then was launched into space on a “Soyuz” spacecraft. It inspired me, I decided to study in Russia. I found out about MAI on the Internet, many friends from Korea studied at MAI, so I thought it would be the right choice”, recalled Yoon.During study at the undergraduate program, Yoon’s scientific supervisor became Professor of the Department 601 "Space Systems and Rocket Science" Mr.Sergey Firsyuk, who leads Yoon now.“At the Department 601, we are engaged in the design of descent spacecraft”, said Yoon. At the 54th Scientific Readings in Kaluga Yoon and Professor Firsyuk presented the joint research “Development of Perspective Technologies of Maneuvering Small Satellites in the Space Experiment “Aerocosmos-MAI”.“The participation in the conference is really useful, because it give you an opportunity to show your ideas to the scientific community, find like-minded researchers. It is also a practical experience,” commented Yoon.The purpose of the space experiment "Aerospace-MAI" is the experimental development and obtaining data on the features of the functioning of small-sized spacecraft using inflatable structures during braking in space and descent in the Earth’s atmosphere.“We are dealing with the problems of spacecraft deorbiting that have become out of use. We create inflatable aеrоbraking devices. When using such a passive braking aid, the time of deorbiting of a nanosatellite with a mass of 3 to 5 kg will be about 10 days instead of two years of natural deorbiting,” commented Yoon. The study is very relevant, since the problem of space debris and its disposal is one of the problems of modern astronautics.

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