
IIT Bombay will teach students to build sattelites
Fifteen months after launching Pratham – a 10kg microsatellite – IIT-B will make the process of building satellites public on Wednesday
Fifteen months after launching Pratham – a 10kg microsatellite – IIT-B will make the process of building satellites public on Wednesday
The students of IIT Bombay have shared detailed information about the satellite creation process, with the purpose of inspiring more students
The maiden microsatellite, Pratham, launched by the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay (IITB) did not complete its mission goal.“We achieved 90% success,” said Yash Sanghvi, who was part of the Pratham team.
A team of 45 students currently working on the institute's next satellite based on the learnings of the several batches of students involved in the making and the flight of Pratham
It has only been a year since the satellite build by IIT Bombay students was launched into space. However, such is the enthusiasm of the students that they have already started working on a new satellite.
After one month of radio silence, the ground station at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, received a signal from Pratham satellite on the morning of December 17, suggesting that it was still alive and kicking.
It was on December 16 that the Pratham team received a message from a Ham group based in Netherlands on having heard the beacon signal. The next morning on December 17, IIT-B's ground station recieved the signal as well.
The first-ever student satellite by IIT-B, Pratham, is live and stable in orbit. The ground station of the satellite at the Institue's Powai campus received the 'beacon signal' from the satellite on Saturday, which confirmed its stability and functionality.
At 9:30am on Saturday, on day two of TechFest, the IIT-B team that has designed and developed Pratham were in for a surprise as the satellite, the first from Mumbai, sent a nearly three-minute-long signal.
The satellite will be in the orbit for four months and its main mission is to measure the total electron count in the Ionosphere.
Pratham, a satellite launched by PSLV developed by IIT Bombay has a place in the 8 longest ever flight vehicles launched by PSLV.
After nine years of wait, the historical satellite, 'Pratham', the first-ever satellite designed and developed by the students of IIT-Bombay will be launched on September 26.
Indian space agency ISRO will shoot off the 'Pratham' satellite designed and build by students of the IIT-Bombay among the eight satellited including its weather satellite on Monday, an official said in Mumbai
IIT Bombay's first student satellite, Pratham+, will be launched on September 26 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The nearly-10kg Pratham, which is also Mumbai's first satellite, will launch abroad the highly-proven Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV) at 9:30 am.