ISRO to launch 2 satellites this month

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ISRO to launch 2 satellites this month - www.daily.bhaskar.com
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For over three years now, students from the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and
the Chennai-based SRM University have been
working on the design and development of two
nano satellites.
Jugnu and SRMSAT designed and developed by
the IITK and SRM University, respectively, will ride
piggy-back on the Indo-French Megha-Tropiques
when it will be launched from the spaceport later
this month.
Professor Nalinaksh S Vyas, Jugnu project
coordinator, told DNA that over 50 students from
IITK were currently in Bangalore to give final
touches to the satellite. "Final tests and integration
are currently on at the ISRO Satellite Centre,
Bangalore," he said.
According to the Jugnu team, the programme
development started in 2008 with a team of just
three students and over time, the team has
grown to 50 students drawn from I year
undergraduate course to final year postgraduate
courses and 14 professors from different
disciplines.
The main objectives of the mission are to initiate
research activities for the development of MEMS-
based Nano-satellite, to test new cheap solutions
for the future cost-effective space missions, to set
the path for future upgradations and study such
validation concepts for possible upgradations.
The SRMSAT is a 10 kg satellite, which has been
designed and developed by SRM University's
Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical, and Chemical
Engineering students. The satellite will monitor
green house gases in the atmosphere.
ISRO has in the past launched student satellites.
The space agency had launched STUDSAT,
India's first pico-satellite which was developed by
a consortium of seven engineering colleges from
Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
It had also launched the Indo-Russian satellite
YOUTHSAT for stellar and atmospheric studies
earlier this year.IIT Kanpur students who are part
of the project.
 

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good work by iitians... and srm is a new entrant.. i seriously looked down upon srm for years... though good move...
moreover they should do more research upon semiconductor and telecom rather than reinventing wheel or doing costly experiments...
i know they got the mojo
 

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