Yubileiny

For other uses, see Yubileyny.

Yubileiny

Operator	NPO PM
Mission type	Technology/Amateur radio
Launch date	23 May 2008
Carrier rocket	Rokot
Launch site	LC-133, Plesetsk
Orbital elements
Regime	LEO
Transponders
Transponders	435.215MHz 435.315MHz

Yubileiny (Russian: Юбиле́йный, lit. Jubilee) is a Russian technology development satellite which was built by NPO PM to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to be placed into Earth orbit. It launched , 23 May 2008 aboard a Rockot rocket from LC-133 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Launch was delayed from the end of 2007, and from earlier in 2008. It was a secondary payload to a cluster of three Gonets satellites, utilising the excess capacity of the carrier rocket.

The satellite will broadcast audio and video about the history of the Soviet and Russian space programmes, as well as signals imitating those broadcast by Sputnik 1. These signals are intended for receipt by Amateur radio enthusiasts.

In April 2009 Russian news media reported that a 'perpetual motion' space engine had been tested on spacecraft: "Specialists of the Institute for Space Systems conducted successful tests of the perpetual motion machine in space," wrote 'Pravda' in Moscow. "Valery Menshikov, the director of the institute, said that the machine was installed at Yubileiny satellite which was launched into orbit almost a year ago. The satellite can now move from one orbit to another with the help of the engine, which discharges no reaction mass."

Menshikov continued, in a claim not verified by any Western space source: "The first tests were conducted in June and July of 2008. The tests revealed some problems that need further developments of the machine, but the orbital experiment was conducted successfully in general."