A microsatellite mission of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences to study processes in the ionosphere related to space weather as part of the search for universal laws governing the transformation and dissipation of plasma-wave energy in the magnetosphere-ionosphere system. The minisatellite reached the International Space Station (ISS) on 2 November 2011, and on 25 January 2012 it was separated from the ISS and transferred to its final orbit at a height of 513 km.