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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay can now boast of the rare privilege of being one ofthe very few universities worldwide to have successfullylaunched its own satellite. Christened [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratham_(satellite) Pratham], being IITBombay's first foray into space technology, the satellite'spayload was to produce data on the total electron count in theatmosphere, used for applications like GPS correction.Planned, designed, built and tested exclusively by thestudents, with guidance from Indian Space ResearchOrganization (ISRO) and IITB faculty, the completelyautonomous satellite Pratham took IIT Bombay into the elitespace club on 26th September 2016, when it was launched byISRO on board the PSLV-C 35.<br \/> <br \/> The After launching the first satellite, the team has now begun the next chapter invested time in developing the StudentSatellite Project of IITB and work has begun on concept for its second satellite, Advitiy which means 'Second to None'. [https://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/satlab/advitiy.php '''Advitiy''']was being designed to be the lightest actively controlled 1U CubeSat. The payload for this mission was to transmit stored and uplinked images via SSTV. In addition to this, the team aimed to create low-cost receivers which could be used to receive these images. During the mission design, thesecond satelliteteam worked on designing the antenna deployment system. A closed-loop simulation framework was developed to aid the design of Attitude Determination and Controls Subsystem. The In parallel to this, the team worked on the wiki, a systematic and organized compilation of the knowledge and the experience gained by the team has also built an autonomousgroundstation at through the journey of Pratham, IIT Bombay 's first student satellite.<br/><br/>After the announcement of opportunity for tracking and communicatingwith satellites. With groundstation workshops, [https://www.facebookisro.gov.comin/update/HamclubIITB15-jun-2019/ HAM Clubannouncement-of-opportunity-ao-orbital-platform '''ISRO's PSLV Stage 4 Orbital Platform'''] andvarious other related activities, the Project also aims team decided toinvolve pause work on Advitiy and carry forward development of Antenna Deployment System along with other universities across India suitable CubeSat subsystems whose indigenous development will be of relevance. With this objective Antenna Deployment System and spread Star Tracker based Attitude Determination System are being developed. They are aimed to be tested on theOrbital Platform of stage 4 of PSLV.<br/><br/>knowledge accumulated The team is also working on a lunar mission called [https://www.glee2023.org/ '''The Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone (GLEE)'''] which is an initiative by the team over University of Colorado Boulder to deploy 500 five-gram LunaSats, one of which will be designed by us, to the lunar surface to conduct local and distributed science missions. Inspired from NASA’s Apollo Moon landings 50 years as ago, GLEE will be a catalyst for a part new generation of the social goal. This Wiki was created towards that endspace missions and explorers. <br \/> <br \> <br \/> The [https://wwww.facebook.com/HamclubIITB/ '''Ham Radio Club, IIT Bombay'''] is also part of IITBSSP, which aims to maintain a functional ground station and encourage amateur radio activities in the institute. It organises an annual [https://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/satlab/gsWS.php '''Groundstation Workshop'''] for engineering colleges around the country to encourage them to set up their own ground station.IIT Bombay Student Satellite Project has evolved into [https://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/satlab/ '''IIT Bombay Student Satellite Program(IITBSSP)'''] with various ongoing projects and initiatives as mentioned above.