Mr. Nikhil Riyaz, ME (Embedded System & Technology) who is a core team member and lead of Satellite team has interacted with Sri. Narendra Modi, Honorable Prime Minister of India and Dr. K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO, India on 14th December 2020.

Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore has built their indigenous “Low Earth Orbit (LEO)” Satellite under Space 4.0 initiation of  IN-SPACe (an initiative of ISRO-HQ) in collaboration with Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA), Committee for Space Programme Development, Serbia and 75 students’ satellites consortium. Currently the satellite is in the qualification test phase. The proposed expected launch schedule will be during 3^rd or 4^th week of February 2021.

The following post-graduate students of Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Technology, Coimbatore have designed and developed this project. The proud post-graduate students of our institution who are in the core team are;

Mr. Nikhil Riyaz

M.E (Embedded System & Technology)

Mr. Denzel Abraham George

M.E (Embedded System & Technology)

Mr. Tarun Sai Reddy

M.E (Embedded System & Technology)

Ms. Athira Ajaayakumar K

M.E (Embedded System & Technology)

Ms. Bhavana Savanth

M.E (Embedded System & Technology)

Mr. Aswin Shankar

M.E (Embedded System & Technology)

Mr. Sanketh S. Huddar

M.E (Computer Science & Engineering)

Ms. Kajol

M.E (Computer Science & Engineering)

Mr. Vamshi Sainath Gavani

M.E (Computer Science & Engineering)

Mr. Vishwa G

M.E (Computer Science & Engineering)

Mr. Joshua Tom Jacod

M.E (VLSI Design)

Mr. Mithun Venkat

M.E (VLSI Design)

Further, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Technology is setting up a CSPD ground control station setup v1.0 in the campus, which has all the conventional ground station functionalities viz., status tracking, signal receiving and processing over WiFi for mobility or remote operation. The station has Debian based OS which runs the Gpredict/ Orbitron Satellite tracking software.

Based on the versatile RTL2832U chip, SatNOGS is using R820T RTL-SDR as the default signal receiver and tuner. The lightweight antennas have been indigenously designed to meet the satellite communication software. Parabolic antenna design is in the works too. An intellectual tracking mechanism is designed to track the satellite and lock the signal. The ground station setup also comes with curved project display system to view the movement of the satellite and the data from the satellite.