IIT Bombay Student Satellite Program
IIT Bombay can now boast of the rare privilege of being one of
the very few universities worldwide to have successfully
launched its own satellite. Christened Pratham, being IIT
Bombay's first foray into space technology, the satellite's
payload was to produce data on the total electron count in the
atmosphere, used for applications like GPS correction.
Planned, designed, built and tested exclusively by the
students, with guidance from Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) and IITB faculty, the completely
autonomous satellite Pratham took IIT Bombay into the elite
space club on 26th September 2016, when it was launched by
ISRO on board the PSLV C-35.
The team has now begun the next chapter in the Student
Satellite Project of IITB and work has begun on Advitiy, the
second satellite. The team has also built an autonomous
groundstation at IIT Bombay for tracking and communicating
with satellites. With groundstation workshops, HAM Club and
various other related activities, the Project also aims to
involve other universities across India and spread the
knowledge accumulated by the team over the years as a part of the social goal. This Wiki was created towards that end.
The Team
From left to right:
Bottom row: Tanmay Patil, Anirudh Singhal, Yogesh Poonia, Ajay Dangi, Neelanchal Maurya, Alok Kumar, Hemil Kothari, Chitrangna Bhatt, Sukanya Kudva.
Second Row: Keshav Janyani, Kushal Yadav, Aditya Patki, Rohit Engla, Karthik Suresh, Riya Singh, Sagar Kumar, Manu Srivastava, Nived Kodavali.
Third Row: Dhrumil Shah, Chaitanya Jain, Ravit Anand, Anuj Kuruwa, Virul Katla, Shashank Verma, Ram Milan Verma, Abhishek Patil, Mrunal Chavan.
Top Row: Om Kolhe, Anmol Sikka, Aniruddha Ranade, Yash Sanghvi, Akshay Khadse, Sumit Agrawal, Sanket Chirame, Anant Joshi.
To know more about the team, please visit: IIT Bombay Student Satellite Team
Contact Us
To know more about this project, visit our website: http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/satlab/
You can also visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/iitb.student.satellite/
To contribute to this Wiki, please send a mail to advitiy.iitbss@gmail.com.
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