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ISRO Developing 'green Propulsion' For Human Space Mission Gaganyaan​


Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), on December 26, said that the space agency was developing ‘green propulsion’ for its ambitious human space flight mission ‘Gaganyaan’. Speaking at the 16th convocation of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, K Sivan asserted that the less toxic and high-performance technology would be used in the 2021 mission that marks India’s first attempt at sending a human being to space. ISRO had previously made space-grade lithium-ion batteries to promote green energy.
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“Even in the rocket propulsion, ISRO is developing green propulsion for its human space flight mission. In future, all the propulsion stages may adopt green propulsion," Sivan said.

He also said that in future, all the propulsion stages may adopt green propulsion


there was a high probability of ‘green propulsion’ being used for every stage of the rocket. Polar Satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) is a four-stage rocket filled with fuel that pushes the rocket to ensure that the satellite it carries the predetermined orbit. Whereas, GSLV or a geostationary launch vehicle (GSLV) is a three-stage rocket with a cryogenic upper stage. ISRO had said that its heavy lift launcher, GSLV MkIII has been identified for the Gaganyaan mission.

ISRO launches communication satellite

ISRO on December 17 successfully launched the communication satellite CMS-01 onboard the PSLV-C50. The new CMS-01 satellite, which was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR), Sriharikota, will replace the current GSAT-12 in orbit, which was launched in 2011. Marking ISRO's second launch this year, the PSLV will put in orbit India's 42nd communications satellite, which is expected to provide coverage over the entire country for disaster management and satellite internet connection.

https://www.businessinsider.in/scie...ays-chairman-k-sivan/articleshow/79966986.cms
 

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India’s first-ever privately designed and developed rocket is a step closer to becoming a reality in 2021​

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DEC 28, 2020, 13:39 IST
India’s first-ever privately designed and developed rocket is a step closer to becoming a reality in 2021

The successful test firing of Kalam 5 at a private test facility owned by Solar Industries on December 22 in Nagpur Skyroot Aerospace
  • The Indian space startup, Skyroot Aerospace, has successfully test-fired its first solid rocket propulsion stage demonstrator called Kalam-5.
  • Kalam-5 uses the same propellant, materials, and interface as the motors that will be installed on Vikram-1 — in line to become India’s first privately designed, developed and tested rocket in 2021.
  • Skyroot Aerospace is backed by Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal and other angel investors with $4.3 million in the bag and plans to raise another $15 million next year.
India’s first-ever privately designed and developed rocket, Vikram-1, is a step closer to becoming a reality.

Founded by two former scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) — Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka — the company behind the rocket, Skyroot Aerospace, has successfully test-fired its first solid rocket propulsion stage demonstrator called Kalam-5.


Kalam-5 uses the exact same propellant, materials, and interface as the three solid propulsion stages of the Vikram-1 launch vehicle, according to Chandana. It is the first of the five Kalam engines that Skyroot plans to test.





"The 'Vikram-1' rocket has three solid fuel-powered stages each with a burn time ranging between 80 and 100 seconds. The full scale solid fuel stage will be tested at the ISRO facility soon. The burn time will be 100 seconds," he said.

With this milestone out of the way, the company is on-track to launch its first full rocket next year.

"We will be signing the non-disclosure agreement with the Department of Space in order to get access to ISRO facilities. The full scale solid fuel stage will be tested at ISRO's rocket port in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh," Chandana added.







India’s first-ever privately designed and developed rocket is a step closer to becoming a reality in 2021
Vikram-series of launch vehicles that Skyroot Aerospace plans to develop for IndiaSkyroot Aerospace
Why does the success of Kalam-5 matter?
Propulsion systems are where the actual magic happens to get rockets off the planet and into space. If anything goes wrong, infamous results can range from pre-launch explosions to the rocket simply falling out of the sky.

Making sure that the propulsion system not only works properly but also provides an adequate thrust to beat gravity is crucial to the success of any rocket.






India’s first-ever privately designed and developed rocket is a step closer to becoming a reality in 2021
Kalam-5 test fired at private facility on December 22 in NagpurSkyroot Aerospace
Kalam-5 is a solid motor. These are high thrust, low-cost rocket engines with propellant in solid form. In addition to being cost-effective, they are also highly reliable with fewer moving parts.

Right now, Kalam-5 gives a peak sea-level thrust of 5.3kN, can handle the pressure of 66 atmospheres and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. It is only one-fourth the size of the solid motor in Vikram 1’s third stage.

“Kalam-5 uses 15 different advanced materials, nine different manufacturing processes and has zero moving parts,” Chandana explained.






Skyroot is backed by investors like Solar Industries, Vedanshu Investments, and Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal. It has raised $4.3 million till now and is in the process of raising another $15 million in 2021.

 

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Isro eyeing new chip unit as more firms take to skies​

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India’s space agency plans to build an additional fab at Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), its chip making facility in Chandigarh, in a bid to scale up capacity to meet the growing demand for chipsets for rockets and satellites as it opens up the space sector to private firms and startups.

The move by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) comes at a time when the government is looking to encourage global companies to set up semiconductor fabs to tap the local market.

India is poised to increase its share in the global manufacturing of mobile phones, IT hardware, automotive electronics, industrial electronics, medical electronics, Internet of Things and other devices in the near future as it aspires to set up $400 billion worth of electronics manufacturing by 2025, the government said in its latest call seeking expressions of interest to set up fabs.


SCL has a 180-nanometre facility that produces chips for strategic purposes. SCL and the Semiconductor Technology and Applied Research Centre (SITAR) in Bengaluru, which has a 100-nanometre unit, also make micro-electrical mechanical systems (MeMs) and sensors that have applications in critical areas. SITAR also runs a Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology Centre (GAETEC) in Hyderabad.

However, most of the country’s requirement is met by imports due to a lack of a homegrown ecosystem of semiconductor manufacturers.

“There is a need to increase localisation (of components and chipsets). The plan is to reduce imports and increase indigenisation,” an Isro official, who did not want to be named, said. Isro is looking to build chips with 65-nanometre technology in the new fab. Isro’s success in building the Vikram processor, crucial for navigation and guidance control of its rockets, besides its collaboration with IITs to build homegrown chips for Navic receivers that will increase the accuracy of navigation across remote corners of the country, will spur demand for mass manufacturing, the person said.

The space agency is also looking at opportunities in the private sector, where startups and large companies are looking to build rockets, satellites and ground equipment that require chipsets to improve their performance.

Separately, a team at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru is awaiting approval for its project to build Gallium Nitride Semiconductors, which includes building the chips and also systems for applications in power electronics and radio frequency electronics used for cell phone towers in 5G applications and radars.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ke-to-skies/articleshow/79985212.cms?from=mdr
 

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The multi- wavelength satellite, has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy which is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth

ASTROSAT, Indias first multi- wavelength satellite observatory, has detected an extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy which is 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) said on Monday.
A release from the Pune-based Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics said a global team led by IUCAA scientists have achieved the major breakthrough.
“Indias first multi-wavelength satellite, which has five unique X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes working in tandem, AstroSat, has detected extreme-UV light from a galaxy, called AUDFs01, 9.3 billion light-yearsaway from Earth,” said it said.

The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha, associate professor of astronomy at the IUCAA, and published on August 24 by ‘Nature Astronomy’, the release said.

This team comprised scientists from India, France, Switzerland, the USA, Japan and The Netherlands.

Saha and his team observed the galaxy, which is located in the Hubble Extreme Deep field, through AstroSat.

These observations lasted for more than 28 hours in October 2016, the release stated.

But it took nearly two years since then to carefully analyse the data to ascertain that the emission is indeed from the galaxy. Since UV radiation is absorbed by Earths atmosphere, it has to be observed from space, it said.

Earlier, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST), a significantly larger than UVIT (UV imaging telescope), did not detect any UV emission (with energygreater than 13.6 eV) from this galaxy because it is too faint, it said.

AstroSat/UVIT was able to achieve this unique feat because the background noise in the UVITdetector is much less than the ones on HST,” said the release quoting Saha.

Saha said they knew it would be an uphill task to convince the international community that UVIT has recorded extreme-UV emission from this galaxy when more powerful HST has not.

Dr Somak Raychaudhury, Director of IUCAA, said, “This is a very important clue to how the dark ages of the universe ended and there was light in the universe.

“We need to know when this started, but it has been very hard to find the earliest sources of light. I am very proud that my colleagues have made such an important discovery.”
 

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Official notice from isro about it
Even hubble didn't find anything in that area of space earlier so it is quite a big achievement🥰🥰
 

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Whole thing reads a bit too conveniently. It would need some corroboration.

Anyone can manufacture a story of this depth and forge what they need to, simply to create a large drama story.

He would need to approach a reputable independent journalist for any of this to be validated (and a long time back).

Fact that he went to facebook (given gravity of what "he" is accusing here) instead of that doesn't pass basic sniff test for me tbh.
 

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The story about this scientist is now popping up in all the media now...so definitely some elements check out.

Let us see how this one goes guys.

I really feel for him if he had anything close to what he says happen to him and then get suppressed on top.

But he also better not be adding some spice etc for attention (it seem his retirement or something is coming up)
 

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Still remember that fateful day's news of Columbia tragedy.... RIP.... her memory and legacy lives on.


Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the S.S. Kalpana Chawla, was unberthed from the International Space Station Unity module’s Earth-facing port and released by the Canadarm2 robotic arm on 6 January 2021, at 15:11 UTC (10:11 EST). Cygnus will conduct an extended mission in orbit, hosting experiments (Saffire V and SharkSat), before performing a safe re-entry and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. The Cygnus resupply spacecraft is named in memory of Kalpana Chawla, the first female astronaut of Indian descent. Credit: NASA/Northrop Grumman
 

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India took a long step forward in Atmanirbharta through its Satellite Based Navigation capabilities by operationalising IRNSS/NavIC system.

This system could replace GPS of the US. Its S-Band transmission is unique and is very suitable for our country.

Elena Geo Systems, an Indian Space start-up, has developed the entire downstream application stack for users. Their Navic based monitoring systems can be used for enhancing efficiency.

 

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ISRO will mentor students from schools offering the Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) programme.

(More at link)
 

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Heartening to see a whole ecosystem is now growing at grasroots level (more at link):


Pixxel is a young aerospace startup from India, started by two BITS Pilani graduates Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal in February 2019, and becoming Asia's only space startup to qualify for the 2019 Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles.

In case you’re wondering that you’ve heard of Pixxel Space before, it’s because a year ago, we got to interact with one of its founders. At the time, the rocket was scheduled to launch in March 2020 on a Russian rocket. However, now, the company has announced that it will soon launch its satellite aboard ISRO’s PSLV C51 Mission.
 

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Original message (decadal plan) by ISRO chairman here: https://www.isro.gov.in/update/01-j...ear-message-2021-“laying-firm-foundation-next



HELSINKI — The Indian Space Research Organisation has outlined plans to develop reusable and heavy lift launchers, advanced propulsion and foster private space activities across the 2020s.

ISRO Chairman K Sivan announced the broad range of goals in a New Year’s message, underlining a major focus on research and development across the decade. Sivan noted that the “space sector is facing disruption due to the entry of many private players” which are targeting cost-effective space transportation systems and delivery of space-based services.

“In line with global directions, we require to develop heavy lift launch vehicle, semi-cryogenic stage, reusable launch vehicle, advance propulsion, next generation avionics, advance materials, dynamic space applications and efficient integration of space based services as well as advanced space science missions,” the message stated.

Every ISRO center and unit was directed to develop a decadal plan and have been laid out in brief. Many will scale up capabilities within their area of focus, including ground stations, human spaceflight, optics and remote sensing, satellite platforms, broadband communications and human resource development.

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Center is charged with carrying forward its “competence in launch vehicle development towards heavy lift capabilities, achieving partial and full reusability” and scramjet engine research.

The Liquid Propulsion Systems Center will meanwhile develop semi-cryogenic propulsion capability to boost India’s payload capability to geosynchronous transfer orbit to almost 5.5 metric tons.

The LPSC will also develop methane-liquid oxygen propulsion as well as green and electric propulsion. The ISRO Propulsion Complex will support these goals by developing test facilities to support the qualification of these new systems.

Sivan described ISRO as a “torch-bearer” of innovation for the country in his New Year’s message. An overall space policy is also stated to be in the “final draft stages”.

K Sivan received a one-year extension to his ISRO chairmanship Dec. 30, meaning his tenure now runs to Jan. 14, 2022.

2021 India spaceflight plans​

A number of “diverse missions” are expected during the coming year. These include the first test flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)—a four-stage rocket capable of lifting 500 kilograms to a 500-kilometer-altitude low Earth orbit—operational Geo-Imaging capability, and the Chandrayaan-3 moon mission.

The Aditya-L1 solar mission and a first Indian Data Relay Satellite are also expected in 2021 or early 2022.

A first, uncrewed flight for the Gaganyaan human spaceflight project is planned for late 2021. It was announced late last year that the first crewed launch had been delayed from December 2021 to no earlier than 2022, ostensibly due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. India conducted just two launches in 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC), inaugurated in January 2019, will meanwhile work on capabilities essential for the Gaganyaan programme, including the crew-rated launch vehicle, Orbital Module, rendezvous and docking, regenerative life support systems and space habitats.

NewSpace developments​

Sivan noted that 2020 was a year of change in the global space arena, brought about by the participation of private players in all aspects of the space sector.

“The situation is not different in our own country; for the first time in the history of this nation’s space programme, we have a handful of entrepreneurs who have come forward to develop end-to-end launch vehicles and satellites with the intention of providing space-based services and thereby contribute to the space economy.”

India recently drafted the Spacecom Policy which is expected to open up and revolutionize India’s space sector. Earth observation is noted as one of main areas for potential growth.

The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (INSPACe) was announced in June 2020 to promote and foster Indian space actors.

“A precursor body for this Centre is already making all efforts to interface with 28 interested players in the country and processing applications, which would also put in place a seamless operating mechanism for INSPACe, as and when it becomes fully operational, which is expected to happen very shortly,” Sivan said.

The commissioning of a new launch site at Kulasekarapattinam, situated in the southernmost part of the Indian subcontinent, is also hoped to give a major boost to private space actors.

The location of the site also allows launches to the south without requiring a dogleg maneuver to avoid flying over Sri Lanka, as with launches from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC).

Meanwhile the PSLV-C51 launch from SDSC in early 2021 will include a satellite from startup Pixxel India. The mission follows the signing of a deal with NewSpace India Limited, the commercial arm of ISRO and a Government of India company under the Department of Space.
 

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AstroSat’s Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope spots rare ultraviolet-bright stars in a massive intriguing cosmic dinosaur in the Milky Way​

Posted On: 21 JAN 2021 3:42PM by PIB Delhi

Astronomers exploring the massive intriguing globular cluster in our Galaxy called NGC 2808 that is said to have at least five generations of stars have spotted rare hot UV-bright stars in it. These stars whose inner core is almost exposed, making them very hot, exist in the late stages of evolution of a Sun-like star. It is not clear how these stars end their lives as not many of them are detected in these fast-evolving phases, making their study crucial.

Motivated by the fact that old globular clusters referred to as dinosaurs of the universe present excellent laboratories where astronomers can understand how stars evolve through various phases between their birth and death, scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, looked out for NGC 2808.

With spectacular ultraviolet images of the cluster from Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard India’s first multi-wavelength space satellite, AstroSat, they distinguished the hot UV-bright stars from the relatively cooler red giant and main-sequence stars which appear dim in these images. The findings of this study have been accepted for publication in the journal ‘The Astrophysical Journal’.

The team of scientists comprising Deepthi S. Prabhu, Annapurni Subramaniam and Snehalata Sahu from IIA combined the UVIT data with observations made using other space missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia telescope along with ground-based optical observations. About 34 UV-bright stars were found to be members of the globular cluster. From the data, the team derived the properties of these stars such as their surface temperatures, luminosities and radii.

One of the UV-bright stars was found to be about 3000 times brighter than the Sun with a surface temperature of about 100,000 K. The properties of these stars were then used to place them on what astronomers call the Hertzsprung-Russel (HR) diagram along with theoretical models to throw light on the characteristics of their parent stars and to predict their future evolution. Most of the stars were found to have evolved from a solar stage called the horizontal branch stars with hardly any outer envelope. Thus they were bound to skip the last major phase of life called the asymptotic giant phase and directly become dead remnants or white dwarfs.

Such UV-bright stars are speculated to be the reason for the ultraviolet radiation coming from old stellar systems such as elliptical galaxies which are devoid of young blue stars. Hence, it is all the more important to observe more such stars to understand their properties.

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Figure 1: A false colour image of the globular cluster NGC 2808 obtained using AstroSat/UVIT. The stars as seen using far-UV (FUV) filter are shown in blue colour, and the yellow colour is used to show the stars observed in near-UV (NUV).

Publication link: arXiv link - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05732.pdf
 

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@Gautam (when you next check in here buddy):


Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace is gearing up to launch its first rocket later this year to put commercial satellites into space. The launch vehicle ‘Vikram-I’ which is under manufacturing and targeted for launch in December, hosts an Orbit Adjustment Module (OAM) that gives the final burn and inserts multiple satellites into space.

Skyroot, which builds small satellite launch vehicles (SSLVs), is among the nine ground-breaking startups and the only space startup in the country chosen to interact with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to commemorate five years of Startup India initiative.


Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder & CEO, Skyroot Aerospace told Telangana Today, “This year, we have three full rocket stage tests. They will be done at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facilities one every 2-3 months before we go for a launch by end of the year.”

“We are building advanced rockets which can be assembled and used to launch satellites to space. We are the first to build a liquid, solid fuel and 100 per cent 3D printed cryogenic rocket engine. It typically takes two years to build a cryogenic engine, but we made this in two days using 3D printing and advanced materials such as super alloys,” he added.

The company won the National Startup Awards 2020 in the space category in October for its innovations. It is founded by former ISRO scientists, Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka.

Skyroot has created about 100 direct and indirect jobs so far and may create thousands of jobs in future, added Skyroot co-founder and COO Naga Bharath Daka.

Engine testing​

Skyroot recently test-fired a solid propulsion rocket engine named Kalam-5, the first of its five Kalam-series rocket engines. The engine uses a carbon composite case and a more advanced version will be built and tested at ISRO’s facilities before powering Vikram-I by December 2021.
The company also has developed a fully cryogenic rocket propellant engine ‘Dhawan-1’, which is India’s first privately developed indigenous rocket engine which runs on liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel. “We are building a dedicated test facility for hot fire testing of this engine. We are aiming to test fire it in April,” Chandana added.

In another ‘India’s first’, the company test-fired its upper stage liquid engine named ‘Raman’, a bi-propellant engine. The engine hosts a 100 per cent 3D printed injector, which reduced its overall mass by 50 per cent and number of components and lead time by 80 per cent. It will be able to support long duration missions as an orbital platform for space experiments and SmallSat deep-space missions.
 

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Some interesting slides from a 2020 ISRO presentation. Spaceflight advancement in the next 10 years is going to be incredible.
More interesting would be clustering of several SCE-200 engines,would help us to achieve more heavier payload to GEO&LEO
 

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My hometown in ISRO news @Joe Shearer , im proud hehe

Sri Shakti is affiliated to Anna University

Good to see further broadening of space science at the college level.

This sat will be part of launch package for PSLV C-51 scheduled currently for 28 Feb 2021. (it was delayed from original nov 2020 due to covid crisis)

PSLV C51 will launch Brazil's (INPE) first complete indigenous satellite Amazonia-1 @bartre
🇮🇳 🤝 🇧🇷

More on this sat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazônia-1

@Gautam @Paro @Milspec @Indos @Cabatli_53 @Sinan @anmdt @#comcom @Test7 @Kartal1 @Vergennes @Saithan @Madokafc @VCheng @UkroTurk @Deliorman @xenon5434 @T-123456 @Saiyan0321 et al.
 

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My hometown in ISRO news @Joe Shearer , im proud hehe

Sri Shakti is affiliated to Anna University

Good to see further broadening of space science at the college level.

This sat will be part of launch package for PSLV C-51 scheduled currently for 28 Feb 2021. (it was delayed from original nov 2020 due to covid crisis)

PSLV C51 will launch Brazil's (INPE) first complete indigenous satellite Amazonia-1 @bartre
🇮🇳 🤝 🇧🇷

More on this sat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazônia-1

@Gautam @Paro @Milspec @Indos @Cabatli_53 @Sinan @anmdt @#comcom @Test7 @Kartal1 @Vergennes @Saithan @Madokafc @VCheng @UkroTurk @Deliorman @xenon5434 @T-123456 @Saiyan0321 et al.
Actually, this is an excellent initiative and should be encouraged in a bipartisan manner. ISRO is one of the last bastions of science in thought and action left in the country.

I haven't heard of these particular educational institutions, but there have been others, from which I had recruited plenty of freshers; no doubt that it was a breeding ground for talent, and will continue for decades.
 

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A few more details: https://www.siet.ac.in/sri-shakthi-satellite-ground-station-inauguration

Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, a coimbatore based Autonomous Engineering institute is all set to launch its own satellite in February 2021.

A Press release by its Chairman Dr.S.Thangavelu states the following :

Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology had a long dream to launch a satellite designed by its students and Faculty members. They had set up a Satellite Communication Lab in their college in the year 2010. From then onwards they had this noble and novel idea of launching their own satellite. Those days the hardware fabrication facilities were not available in India. The government regulations were very stringent. Even after the design and development of a satellite to get permission from the government was very difficult. Hence the students / private agencies preferred to launch their satellites through foreign launch vehicles with permission from the government. Normally it will take three to six years to get all the required permissions.

To solve this problem and to encourage the student community , our honorable Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi and ISRO made a historical new initiative and formed the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe)in June 2020 at Bangalore. This IN-SPACe has paved the way for collaboration of ISRO, Private Industries and Academia, the visionary triple helix model. This has provided the “Single Window” facility for getting all required permissions for frequency allocations, registration of objects(satellite) before launch and also for launch by ISRO PSLV. Because of this we are able to realize our 10 year dream.

The hard work and the design and developments which were made all these days have yielded the fruit in the form of our “Sri Shakthi Sat” project worth Rs.2.5 crores. Encouraged by the new government initiative and ISRO we are able to finalize our design and build our own satellite by a team of 12 students led by Mr.Nikhil Riyaz and three faculty members to access the space in the“New Space Era” of “Space 4.0”.

We have also collaborated with the SERBIA based Community for Space Programme Development(CSPD). They have offered us the technology for installing the ground station. With their assistance , Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology has installed the ground station and become a member of SatNOGS (Satellite Networked Open Ground Station) project, which is a free software and open source hardware platform aimed to create a satellite ground station network. SatNOGS aims to provide a stack of technologies needed for a distributed network of low earth orbit satellite ground stations. There are 300+ operational ground-stations and 380+ satellites with 810+ transmitters monitored as on November 2019. The global array of ground stations contribute to an effective network for monitoring orbital satellites. With the above network, we can monitor the satellite throughout the day for all 365 days. For the Same, Dr.K.Sivan, Chairman, ISRO and the Secretary, Department of Space, Government of India will inaugurate the ground station in our college on 28 January 2021.

Our Satellite along with another two satellites built by two other institutions will be launched by ISRO from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR Sriharikota on 22 February 2021 through PSLV – C51. Our satellite will be a PICO satellite which will weigh only 460 grams, but it is capable of performing like any other nano satellite weighing upto 10 kgs. This satellite will be orbiting at a distance of 500 – 575 kms from the earth. Hence it will be a LEO satellite. (Low Earth Orbit). This satellite will be used as a technology demonstrator to demonstrate IOT (Internet Of Things)in space and for inter satellite communication. Hence our satellite is capable of performing all IOT (Internet Of Things) activities from space.

Nowadays, for monitoring and controlling any systems we are using either a remote control or a smartphone. For example, to identify any leakage in a water, oil or gas pipelines and also to open and close the valves this satellite can be used from this space. Similarly, for extinguishing forest fire or fire in a multi-storey building this satellite can be used. Also to avoid theft and burglary in banks and other security area, this satellite will be very much useful.

UNISEC India, CSPD, Serbia and Indian Technology Congress Association have congratulated the Sri Shakthi Management for their continued encouragement and support to their students to build their own satellite, indigenously! The Sri Shakthi Students’ Satellite Team Members have participated in Indo-Israel Space Tech Leadership Programmes held in Israel during 2019 (Twice) and International CanSat/Rocketry Competition held in Serbia during Oct 2019. With this initiative, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology marches forward emphatically in its journey towards becoming the top engineering college in the country.
 

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