Parent Chapter Newsletter
- Issue 1 July-Sept 2004
- Issue 2 Oct-Dec 2004
- Inter-chapter meeting presentation 24th March 2005
University Micro Satellite Program – ANUSAT
'Anusat', a 60 Kg micro satellite for communication and education purposes is being designed and fabricated at Anna University, Chennai in collaboration with Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).The thrust of this project is to encourage advanced inter-disciplinary studies and research activities in Indian universities and to generate highly skilled work force for the future space programs. This collaboration is the first of its kind in India. Mr Rajaram Nagappa, a fellow MITian, former ISRO scientist and the Chief of Centre for Aerospace Research, MIT is the key interface person between the ISRO experts and the academic community.
Students and Professors from various departments have been actively involved in this project for almost an year now. At present various subsystems of power electronic systems, the BUS electronic and RF systems have been developed. Few of the subsystems like All-Digital FSK receiver, Turbo coder and the GPS receiver have been demonstrated to ISRO.
The satellite would be supported by ground stations located in Anna University, Pune University, IIT Guwahati and University of Roorkee. With the project activities going at the current pace, the micro satellite is expected to be launched in the last quarter of 2004-2005, as an auxiliary payload of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The launch will indeed make us feel proud of our alma mater.
If you are interested in more technical information, please visit http://www.iaanet.org/symp/berlin/IAA-B4-0501.pdf
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