{"id":242725,"date":"2016-09-07T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/?p=30652"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:19:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:19:46","slug":"pratham-student-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242725","title":{"rendered":"Pratham student satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-shortcode=\"caption\" id=\"attachment_30653\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/solidworks-rendering-of-the-pratham-satellite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30653\" src=\"https:\/\/ukamsat.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/solidworks-rendering-of-the-pratham-satellite.jpg?w=300&#038;h=188\" alt=\"SolidWorks rendering of the Pratham satellite - Credit IIT Bombay\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SolidWorks rendering of the Pratham satellite &#8211; Credit IIT Bombay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The satellite Pratham built by students at the <strong>Indian Institute of Technology Bombay<\/strong> is expected to launch on the Indian PSLV-C35 mission toward the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aayush Yadav<\/strong> of the Pratham team writes:<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0 you all joined us in receiving our satellite&#8217;s beacon, details given below:<\/p>\n<p>35 WPM CW Beacon on 145.980 MHz<\/p>\n<p>1200 bps FSK Beacon on 437.455 MHz (To be switched on over France and India only)<\/p>\n<p>We will update the information as soon as TLE&#8217;s will be available.<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards.<br \/>\nTeam Pratham<\/p>\n<p>Further information at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aero.iitb.ac.in\/pratham\/\" >http:\/\/www.aero.iitb.ac.in\/pratham\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&#038;blog=41081109&#038;%23038;post=30652&#038;%23038;subd=ukamsat&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/2016\/09\/07\/pratham-student-satellite\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=amsat-uk.org&amp;blog=41081109&amp;post=30652&amp;subd=ukamsat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-AMSAT"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243037,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242725\/revisions\/243037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}