SolidWorks rendering of the Pratham satellite – Credit IIT Bombay
The satellite Pratham built by students at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is expected to launch on the Indian PSLV-C35 mission toward the end of September.
Pratham, a 300x300x300mm satellite with a mass of 10 kg, aims to measure total electron count in a 800 km altitude Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).
Aayush Yadav of the Pratham team writes:
We, students of IIT Bombay, are glad to inform you that our project, Pratham, is ready and expected to launch with PSLV-C35 in the last week of September. We would be really happy if you all joined us in receiving our satellite’s beacon, details given below:
35 WPM CW Beacon on 145.980 MHz
1200 bps FSK Beacon on 437.455 MHz (To be switched on over France and India only)
We will update the information as soon as TLE’s will be available.
Kind Regards.
Team Pratham
Further information at http://www.aero.iitb.ac.in/pratham/
