Sputnix was established in 2011 by the ScanEx satellite technology department, which developed the
orientation and stabilization system of the Chibis-M
microsatellite by order of the
Russian Space Research Institute. It is based at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. In 2013, Sputnix received a license from the Russian Federal Space Agency to carry out space activities and began to create microsatellite technology-demonstrator
TabletSat-Aurora. On June 19, 2014, Tabletsat-Aurora was launched into
Low Earth orbit on a Ukrainian launch vehicle, the
Dnepr rocket implementing a contract between Sputnix and
ISC Kosmotras. In 2017, Sputnix developed the Orbiсraft-Pro satellite platform based on the international
CubeSat standard. The OrbiСraft-Pro platform is a design kit that allows the assembly of various configurations of nanosatellites with different payloads. The scientific and educational satellites SiriusSat-1 (COSPAR 1998-067PG; decayed from orbit 9 December 2020) and SiriusSat-2 (COSPAR 1998-067PH; decayed from orbit 9 December 2020) were created with the OrbiСraft-Pro platform, and launched from the
International Space Station on August 15, 2018. == Main activities ==