{"id":2534,"date":"2025-11-24T20:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tudengisatelliit.ee\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2026-01-30T04:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:24:41","slug":"mechanics-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudengisatelliit.ee\/en\/mechanics-update\/","title":{"rendered":"SUTS Mechanics Team Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We asked our SUTS Mechanics Team Lead for updates regarding what they have been doing in the past few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following is a short interview that we conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Igor Kuzmin \u2014 I\u2019m the Mechanical Team Lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past year, I\u2019ve been working on the design of an engineering model of our satellite. Regarding recent milestones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall satellite design is about 90% complete. This means that no major changes are expected in the future \u2014 only minor details remain to be refined. In general, this marks the end of the more \u201ccreative\u201d phase of our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This allowed us to move on to creating technical drawings and prototyping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the drawings (which, I hope, are more or less clear), I won\u2019t go into the difficulties of this \u201cstandard\u201d work \u2014 it\u2019s not particularly creative, though some may enjoy it more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About prototyping, however, there\u2019s much more to say. It\u2019s the process where we, as engineers, test our CAD designs. Yes, we use inexpensive materials that don\u2019t meet space requirements (in our case, 3D printing, due to its accessibility and convenience). But this allows us to truly see and touch what we\u2019re building. There\u2019s a huge difference between what we see on our large screens and what we get in real life. We do this for one simple reason \u2014 to understand whether we can actually build our satellite. Because in the digital world, everything may look neat and easy to assemble, but in reality, things are far from perfect. Failing to test your design at least once can lead \u2014 to put it mildly \u2014 to problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll share more detailed results in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some concept art of SUTS <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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