The sixth space shift "Planet Duty Officer" will be held in Tatarstan

From April 3 to 17, 2024 in the children's camp Baytik, located 10 km from Kazan, will be held All-Russian Space Shift "Duty on the Planet", which is the final of six national competitions for schoolchildren in the field of space technology.

The competition is organized with the support of the Innovation Promotion Foundation, Roscosmos State Corporation, Talent and Success Foundation, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan and ANO Kazan Open Talent University 2.0

Shift Directions:
- "Operational Satellite Monitoring." Participants develop a ground-based complex for receiving data from meteorological satellites using UAVs. The organizer - engineering company "Lorette".
- "Sputnik". Rocket development from Samara National Research University named after Academician S.P. Korolev.
- "Space Robotics - Rovers." Participants develop payloads and control algorithms for rovers. Organizers: Lomonosov Moscow State University Research Institute of Mechanics and the Volt Brothers project.
- "Orbit-SpacePi - Applied Space Systems and Satellite Control" from Education of the Future and the Space-π project. The teams are developing payloads for satellites that will be tested in a stratospheric launch to an altitude of about 25 km, and will also build transceiver equipment for satellite control.
- "Space Automatic Object Identification and Artificial Intelligence" from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Schoolchildren develop software and hardware parts of ship monitoring using neural network technologies.
- "Digital forester". Participants will work through the development of the forest massif in the region: they will learn to understand the peculiarities of forestry, learn about the possibilities of using space and lidar imagery data in forestry, get acquainted with drones and their payloads. The organizer is the company "Space Technologies and Services Center".

The final event at the Talent University will be attended by 130 schoolchildren selected from more than 20,000 applications from 84 regions of Russia. The participants will be formed into teams implementing space projects under the guidance of space industry experts.