IIT Kanpur Students to Develop Nanosatellite

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Students at the IIT K (Kanpur) are working with the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) to develop the first nano satellite that might end up in space if all goes as planned.

This will be the first Indian satellite that has been developed entirely by college students. Once the work on the satellite is completed, the students will handover the same to ISRO for further tests, and it will be launched soon after. The handover is expected to happen sometime in November 2009. The nano satellite is interestingly called Jugnu and will be used to collect information for flood, drought, and disaster management. It will also be fitted with high definition cameras to capture detailed images to enable data analysis.
The students expect that work on the satellite will take another 7 months to near completion. An amount of Rs. 2.5 crore has been spent on developing the satellite, according to a senior IIT-K official.

Source: Techtree