Swayam

 Swayam is a picosatellite (CubeSat) developed by the undergraduate students of College of Engineering, Pune.

 They have successfully completed assembly of the flight model having a size of 1-U and weight of 990 grams under the guidance of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in January 2015. 

The structural design of the satellite, design of its electronic and control systems as well as the manufacturing of the satellite was carried out by the students.

 The project was completed over a span of 8 years and more than 200 students worked on Swayam.

Credit: ISRO 

The Satellite was launched by ISRO on 22nd June 2016 along with Cartosat-2C by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-34 from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India.

 The satellite is to be placed in low earth orbit (LEO) around the Earth at a height of 515 km. 

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Specification:

• Attitude Control System:

It is the scientific mission of the Satellite to prove that PMACS is a robust and cost-effective solution for attitude control. 

The primary objective of ACS is to attain a configuration favourable for communication to take place. 

Earth's magnetic field will be used for achieving this.

Credit: ISRO 

Spacecraft:

The subsystem consists of:

• Amplifiers: Low-noise amplifier (LNA) & High Power Amplifier (HPA) to amplify the received signal and the output signal respectively.

• Antenna: A dipole antenna

• Transceiver: Texas Instruments' CC1120 RF Transceiver

• Terminal node controller: Microchip's PIC microcontroller, which is interfaced with the Transceiver.

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Mission Overview:

• Application: student satellite
• Launch Mass: 1 kg
• Launch date: 22nd July 2016
• Operator: ISRO
• Launch site: Sriharikota 
• Launch vehicle: PSLV C34
• Orbit: SSPO

Credit: ISRO