'Ground Station' Workshop
Team Pratham feels that the entire country should benefit by the knowledge and experience that the team has gained while going through the satellite building process. We propose to share our knowledge by organizing workshops which will inspire others in the field of satellite technology.
Deepika Thakur is heading this initiative. Please contact her at email:deepikat.iitb@gmail.com, mobile: +91-9867117030
A Google Group named "Social Goal IITB Satellite Pratham" has been launched to facilitate sharing of information among the participating universities. Please join it.
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Since the third Groundstation Workshop held in June 2010, we have received a large number of requests from students from different universities who wish to be a part of the IIT Bombay's Student Satellite Project "Pratham". Hence we invite you to the fourth workshop of the series. The details are as follows:
Date: 15th May, 2011
Time: 9 AM to 5 PM
Venue: Aerospace Seminar Hall, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay
We are also inviting the previous participants of the workshops, including the team from IPGP France, to show-case the work they have done in their universities, so that their experience will be beneficial to everyone. If possible, we shall also try to do end-to-end testing with the Pratham Satellite's hardware. Click here for the schedule.
Of course, like all previous workshops, there are no registration fees, etc. for attending the workshop.
Kindly confirm your participation via email to Deepika. We request you to come prepared to make a small presentation at the workshop about your progress so far.
The list of institutes and universities that attended the workshop are as follows:
- Birla Institute of Technology, Deoghar
- Atharva College of Engineering
- College of Engineering, Pune
- National Institute of Technology, Calicut
- Gujrat University
- Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
- Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli
- Mumbain university
- Gyanganga university
- Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
The presentations and videos of the workshop are below:
Presentation by Saptarshi on Introduction to Pratham
Presentation made by Deepika on the previous Ground Station Workshops
Presentation made by Atharva Engineering College Team
Presentation made by Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering Team
Presentation made by Gyanganga Team
Presentation made by Team from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Université Paris Diderot, France who joined us using skype. Video 576MB
Presentation made by College of Engineering Pune Team
Presentation made by BIT Deoghar Team
IIT Madras also made a presentaion.(Their Home Page)
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The Third Ground Station workshop was conducted on 19th June, 2010 at IITB. This was the final workshop where all the circuits will be explained and the IITB Ground Station was shown. For more details, contact Jhonny Jha, Deepika Thakur and Kartavya Neema. Click here for the schedule.
Jayant Singh (VU2TQC) uplinked his call sign to the VO-52 satellite and we recieved it at our ground station. The universities that participated were:
- Atharva Engineering College, Mumbai
- Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Navi Mumbai
- Dr. P. Raveendranath from Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology (IIST)
- College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)
- Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
- National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (NIT Trichy)
The presentations and videos of the workshop are below:
Presentation made by Haripriya on Introduction to Pratham
Presentation made by Jhonny Jha , Video 350MB
Presentation made by Deepika , Video 380MB
Presentation made by Kanwal , Video 155MB
Presentation made by Nitish on Payload , Video 850MB
Times of India covered the workshop in the Sunday Times.
Students from Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering (BVCOE), Navi Mumbai have attended all the three workshops and have taken up the project of setting up a ground station at their college as their final year project. Here is the report about their project. They have already completed the fabrication and testing of yagis and have build the rotor mechanism. They can be contacted at:
RAVI SHANKAR, contact no-9768660748, email - ravi_et2007@yahoo.co.in
MANTOO KUMAR SINHA, contact no- 9773538316, email:mantoo_singh@yahoo.co.in
VAIBHAV MISKEEN, contact no- 9821864221, emai- vaibhavmiskeen@gmai.com
PIYUSH ERANDE, contact no-9821864189, email- erandepiyush@gmail.com
RITESH ANAND, contact no-9967219362, email- raj_anand46@yahoo.com
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The Second Ground Station workshop was conducted on 22nd August, 2009 at IITB. It dealt with simulation and design of Ground station crossed Yagi- Uda antennae using 4NEC2 software. There will be a brief overview of the satellite project by Ms. Haripriya folowed by an introduction to crossed yagis by Mr. Jhonny Jha in the morning session . Mr. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyaya will be giving a brief talk on "failure modes" in the afternoon session followed by simulation and optimization of crossed yagis which will be taken up by Ms. Deepika Thakur of the Communication and Ground station subsystem.
The 8 participating universities are:
- Thapar University, Patiala
- Saveetha Engineering College, Chennai
- Faculty of Engineering Technology, Saveetha University, Chennai
- Atharva Engineering College, Mumbai
- BVCOE, Navi Mumbai
- BIT Mesra, Extension centre Jaipur
- GGTIM, Bhopal
- Jiwaji University, Gwalior
The schedule of the workshop can be downloaded from here.
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The First Ground Station workshop, conducted on 12th October, 2008 at IITB, which was to enable students to learn the technology of making a ground station. We hope that through these workshops, student teams will be able to make a working low cost ground station (<20,000 Rs) capable of receiving signals and data from our satellite. Around 8 universities participated in this workshop.
We have compiled Basic Information about the Ground Station so that you get an idea of the technology involved. Click here to download the file.
The presentation given during the workshop can be downloaded from here.
The first task towards Ground Station building has been explained here.
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Please contact any of the following people for details about the Ground Station workshops:
Jhonny Santosh Jha
Head, Communication Sub-system
+91 9833224163
Deepika Thakur
Communication Sub-system
+91 9867117030
Kartavya Neema
Communication Sub-system
+91 9930238629
Saptarshi Bandopadhyay
System Engineer
+91 93243 86818