IIT-B developing micro-satellite
I got a great shock today morning reading the newspapers. Got the news that IIT-B is developing a 10-kg micro-satellite.
This is a growing trend of developing small satellites that I am so happy to see in India. I have been wanting to see something like this happen ever since I saw the CalPoly Cubesat page that was filled with student satellite projects from other countries.
While the newspaper article quotes only the other satellite developed by Anna University, there are satellites under development at IIA, IISc and VIT besides the one at IIT-B and Anna University. I also hear reports of a college in Hyderabad starting their own small satellite project as well. SEDS-India also has a small satellite project that you will hear from soon.
It's a small satellite project in the making and I can name atleast a dozen colleges which can take up the project if there are interested students there. IIT-Kanpur is one of them. Hopefully, this student satellite space race will lead to something more substantial in the future.
With so many student satellites in the offing, the Indian rocketry community has a great oppertunity in their hands. Anyone listening?
Posted at 10:53AM Dec 19, 2007 by Pradeep in Space in India | Comments[4]
hey thats great to hear but what about the orbit~~~if there are so many microsatelite will there also be availability of orbit space~~~might cause collision
Posted by rambhai on February 02, 2008 at 06:58 PM IST #
Nothing to worry about that -- not yet. Maybe you can ask this as a question to the people on the SEDS forums, here - http://forums.seds.org/forumdisplay.php?f=56
Thanks for your comments.
Posted by pradeep on February 03, 2008 at 08:00 PM IST #
hey that's great to hear.is this satellite an in-house IIT-B project?and do you know of any other such projects in pune?i'd like some hands on experience.
thanks
Posted by satish ravindran on February 21, 2008 at 08:21 PM IST #
Yes. It is inhouse.
I have heard of none. But, what stops you from starting one?
Posted by Pradeep on February 22, 2008 at 04:11 PM IST #