Swayam Picosatellite
SWAYAM PICO-SATELLITE
SWAYAM is a pico-satellite CubeSat student satellite type. The project started around 2008, developed by students from College of Engineering at Pune, under the technical guidance and support from ISRO in January 2015. Approximately around 170 students from different majors burnt the midnight oil to complete the project in the span of 8 years. ISRO, also known as the Indian Space Research Organisation, is the agency that is responsible sending the satellite into the orbit.
SWAYAM CubeSat
http://amsatindia.org/coep-satellite-swayam-project/
ISRO successfully launched its thirty-sixth mission to space using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSVL-C34) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) on 22nd of June 2016. This vehicle managed to bring the 727.5-kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 19 co-passenger satellites. This also includes two university/academic satellites which are developed by students of Sathyabama University (Sathyabamasat) in Chennai and College of Engineering, Pune (Swayam), weighing 1.5 kg and 1 kg respectively. Apart from those three satellites, the rest (17 co-passenger satellites) were from the international customer such as Canada, Indonesia, Germany and the United States. The mission would carry LAPAN A3 of Indonesia, BIROS of Germany, and SKYSAT GEN 2-1 of US.
Saw with immense joy that students from institutions in Pune & Chennai played a role in the making of satellites. This touched me.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 22, 2016
Watch #ISRO's PSLV C34 taking off with 20 satellites in a single mission including the Cartosat 2 series@isrohttps://t.co/TilsVKJLHk
— PIB India (@PIB_India) June 22, 2016
PSLV-C34 is being moved out of Vehicle Assembly building
https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c34-cartosat-2-series-satellite/pslv-c34-gallery
SWAYAM Exploded View
https://www.futureentech.com/2016/06/a-pico-satellite-swayam-designed-and.html
Since it's a pico-satellite, 1U Cubesat, it has a mass of 990 g. The satellite has a dimension of 100 mm x 100 mm x 113.5 mm. The antenna, a deployable UHF dipole antenna, that is sticking out is a feature of the payload which functions as a point to point packet communication with which a user can send and receive messages from one point to another point on the earth. The satellite has an onboard computer which features 32-bit microcontroller and 2 GB storage. The satellite houses several sensors which include 11 Voltage Sensors, 11 Current Sensors, and 4 Temperature Sensors. The satellite has 2 objectives, which are to demonstrate passive attitude stabilization in polar low Earth orbit using a permanent magnet and to characterize the 434-438 MHz amateur HAM band for low Earth orbit.
For the first objective, the unique technique of Passive Magnetic Attitude Control System (PMACS) is implemented in the Swayam. The uniqueness of the technique is that it controls the orientation of satellite without any power consumption with reasonable accuracy for communication. It is the scientific mission of the Satellite to prove that PMACS is a robust and cost-effective solution for attitude control. Passive Magnetic Attitude Control System (PMACS) is used as the Attitude Control System (ACS) in the Swayam, ACS is used to control the dynamic behaviour of a satellite including the orientation and motion of the satellite. Components of Passive ACS include permanent magnets and hysteresis rods which the Swayam is equipped with. The hysteresis rods are soft magnetic materials which damp the angular oscillations of the satellite and the magnet aligns the antenna along the earth's magnetic field.
SWAYAM Satellite place in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at 491 km (Perigee) until 509 km (Apogee) height. This provides support for its purpose as communication satellite that provides low earth orbit channel characterization in UHF HAM band which is used in Amateur radio. It revolves around the earth 15 times a day. It has around 0.0012748 for the eccentricity and 97.4299° inclination (retrograde). This suitable for Passive Magnetic Attitude Control System (PMACS) which is implemented and also suitable for communication purpose.
Orbit View Above Orbital Plane
Source: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx
Orbit View Above Satellite
Source: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx
Groundtrack
Source: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx
We think our university, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), needs to launch a satellite just like what the launcher of Swayam did, which will be the first institution made and designed satellite to do so. Pico-satellite is the most suitable satellite for ITB to launch for the first time since it is relatively cheap and not a very complex satellite. The payload should have communication capabilities like the Swayam does. The purpose of this satellite is to demonstrate that ITB is capable of independently making a satellite. If the satellite succeeds to launch and fully functional in the orbit it would indicate that it is possible for further innovation and launch a more advanced satellite with more payload functionality.
13616104 Naufal Muhammad Farras
13616106 Ahmad Faris Sahab
13616107 Kresna Haryo WIcahyo
13616118 Muhammad Thariq Hidayat
SWAYAM is a pico-satellite CubeSat student satellite type. The project started around 2008, developed by students from College of Engineering at Pune, under the technical guidance and support from ISRO in January 2015. Approximately around 170 students from different majors burnt the midnight oil to complete the project in the span of 8 years. ISRO, also known as the Indian Space Research Organisation, is the agency that is responsible sending the satellite into the orbit.
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SWAYAM CubeSat
http://amsatindia.org/coep-satellite-swayam-project/ |
ISRO successfully launched its thirty-sixth mission to space using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSVL-C34) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) on 22nd of June 2016. This vehicle managed to bring the 727.5-kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 19 co-passenger satellites. This also includes two university/academic satellites which are developed by students of Sathyabama University (Sathyabamasat) in Chennai and College of Engineering, Pune (Swayam), weighing 1.5 kg and 1 kg respectively. Apart from those three satellites, the rest (17 co-passenger satellites) were from the international customer such as Canada, Indonesia, Germany and the United States. The mission would carry LAPAN A3 of Indonesia, BIROS of Germany, and SKYSAT GEN 2-1 of US.
Saw with immense joy that students from institutions in Pune & Chennai played a role in the making of satellites. This touched me.— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 22, 2016
Watch #ISRO's PSLV C34 taking off with 20 satellites in a single mission including the Cartosat 2 series@isrohttps://t.co/TilsVKJLHk— PIB India (@PIB_India) June 22, 2016
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PSLV-C34 is being moved out of Vehicle Assembly building
https://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c34-cartosat-2-series-satellite/pslv-c34-gallery |
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SWAYAM Exploded View
https://www.futureentech.com/2016/06/a-pico-satellite-swayam-designed-and.html
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Since it's a pico-satellite, 1U Cubesat, it has a mass of 990 g. The satellite has a dimension of 100 mm x 100 mm x 113.5 mm. The antenna, a deployable UHF dipole antenna, that is sticking out is a feature of the payload which functions as a point to point packet communication with which a user can send and receive messages from one point to another point on the earth. The satellite has an onboard computer which features 32-bit microcontroller and 2 GB storage. The satellite houses several sensors which include 11 Voltage Sensors, 11 Current Sensors, and 4 Temperature Sensors. The satellite has 2 objectives, which are to demonstrate passive attitude stabilization in polar low Earth orbit using a permanent magnet and to characterize the 434-438 MHz amateur HAM band for low Earth orbit.
For the first objective, the unique technique of Passive Magnetic Attitude Control System (PMACS) is implemented in the Swayam. The uniqueness of the technique is that it controls the orientation of satellite without any power consumption with reasonable accuracy for communication. It is the scientific mission of the Satellite to prove that PMACS is a robust and cost-effective solution for attitude control. Passive Magnetic Attitude Control System (PMACS) is used as the Attitude Control System (ACS) in the Swayam, ACS is used to control the dynamic behaviour of a satellite including the orientation and motion of the satellite. Components of Passive ACS include permanent magnets and hysteresis rods which the Swayam is equipped with. The hysteresis rods are soft magnetic materials which damp the angular oscillations of the satellite and the magnet aligns the antenna along the earth's magnetic field.
For the second objective, the utility of the satellite is to provide point to point messaging service from one ground station to another in the HAM band frequency. These are open to all and various HAM users across the globe can use these for communicating amongst themselves. It has messaging capability of 18,00,000 messages (70 bytes each). The satellite also transmits the received signal strength and the error corrected information in the downlink, the communication going from a satellite to ground, which the Ground Stations can use to characterize their setup for digital communication.
SWAYAM Satellite place in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at 491 km (Perigee) until 509 km (Apogee) height. This provides support for its purpose as communication satellite that provides low earth orbit channel characterization in UHF HAM band which is used in Amateur radio. It revolves around the earth 15 times a day. It has around 0.0012748 for the eccentricity and 97.4299° inclination (retrograde). This suitable for Passive Magnetic Attitude Control System (PMACS) which is implemented and also suitable for communication purpose.
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Orbit View Above Orbital Plane
Source: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx
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Orbit View Above Satellite
Source: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx
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Groundtrack
Source: http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx
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We think our university, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), needs to launch a satellite just like what the launcher of Swayam did, which will be the first institution made and designed satellite to do so. Pico-satellite is the most suitable satellite for ITB to launch for the first time since it is relatively cheap and not a very complex satellite. The payload should have communication capabilities like the Swayam does. The purpose of this satellite is to demonstrate that ITB is capable of independently making a satellite. If the satellite succeeds to launch and fully functional in the orbit it would indicate that it is possible for further innovation and launch a more advanced satellite with more payload functionality.
13616104 Naufal Muhammad Farras
13616106 Ahmad Faris Sahab
13616107 Kresna Haryo WIcahyo
13616118 Muhammad Thariq Hidayat
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