Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 20: Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), one of India’s oldest and finest educational institutions, is going to launch Thaparsat.
TIET’s Chairman RR Vederah and Director Prof. Prakash Gopalan announced that nano-satellite “Thaparsat” will be flown in Low Earth Orbit. A highly dedicated team of 25 students and 6 faculty mentors from different engineering departments are involved in building individual sub-systems. The satellite aims at doing real time monitoring of pollution due to greenhouse gases, measurement of soil moisture content in primarily Punjab and in general, Northern India and regular monitoring of methane gas across the Indian sub-continent. It will be useful in monitoring the environmental and agricultural aspects across Punjab and northern part of India in general.
TIET is collaborating with Data Patterns, Chennai for the student satellite project. The team at Data Patterns have been actively involved in assisting and mentoring the teams of TIET during different phases of satellite and monitoring station development.
Management and the project execution team are extremely thrilled on the inauguration of Thaparsat Satellite Monitoring Station which embarks a landmark for their ambitious project.
The station was inaugurated by Dr AS Pillai, Founder CEO and MD, BrahMos Aerospace (member BOG, TIET) and RR Vederah, Chairman BOG, TIET in presence of Prof Prakash Gopalan, Director TIET, other faculty members and administration staff.
The team aims to launch the satellite by the PSLV of India from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The proposal for the same will be shortly submitted by TIET team to ISRO.
“The proposed satellite has potential of applications in areas other than air pollution and soil moisture content”, said Dr AS Pillai. To this Prof Prakash Gopalan added that TIET is also planning to collaborate with different Government bodies, research centers and universities across Punjab for potential applications using Thaparsat and the ground-station available at TIET, Patiala.
“Thaparsat carries a mid-infrared detector in the wavelength range of 2 – 5 micrometer and we have established a fully equipped monitoring station at TIET campus, Patiala, Punjab, to regularly track the satellite and process the payload data for various applications. It has been a fulfilling journey under the mentorship of Dr AS Pillai and the management of TIET and we are looking forward to successfully complete the project in stipulated time span”, said the Project Incharge Dr Mamta Gulati.
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