Official visit from India (UNITYsat/WCRC team)

Official visit of two Young Engineers Mr. Ashwin Shankar Reddy and Mr. Sainath Vamshi Gavani from India who are part of the Satellite Team that together with the CSPD developed and launched THREE Satellites (UNITYsat) into Space on February 28, 2021, with ISRO’s Rocket PSLV-C51 Amazonia Mission from India’s Spaceport, Sriharikota, India (https://www.isro.gov.in/Spacecraft/unitysat).

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Springer: CSPD/ITCA/NHCE (TSC) chapter in The book Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering has been published in electronic and print format

Title

Era of Small Satellites: Pico, Nano and Micro-satellites (PNM Sat)—an Over View of Frugal Way to Access Low Earth Orbit

Abstract

Every nation, be it a small or big, aspires to launch their own satellite to space and wishes to provide an opportunity to their scientists/students, in order to encourage them to continue space research. For the majority of the nations and academic institutions/universities, it is still a distant dream! including former Yugoslavian countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia). Committee for Space Programme Development (CSPD), Serbia, has been striving hard to provide an opportunity for building and launching satellites for former Yugoslavian countries. In continuation of their sustained efforts since last 2–3 years, CSPD has succeeded in establishing a working relationship with India and paved the way for Indo-Serbian Collaborative Research leading to the realization of the launching of satellites of small nations. This paper highlights the opportunities opened up globally during Space 2.0 era and need for the Pico, Nano and Micro-Satellites (PNM Sat) as a frugal way to access space and sustain space research by academic institutions and small nations to realize their dream in a more frugal way!

FEES SATELLITE LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY

After almost 3 years since the signing of the Cooperation Agreement with GP Advanced Projects srls (GPAP) from Italy, a FEES (Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite) was launched on Monday, 22th March 2021 at 06:07 UTC with the Soyuz Rocket, from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch has been delayed for so long due to the Launch Provider’s arrangments of other missions and the pandemic situation. FEES Satellite was launched with 37 more Satellites. Committee for Space Programme Development (CSPD) is a part of this mission with the task for the development and maintenance of Ground Station configurations and networks necessary for successful FEES telemetry receive. Because of this project, the Intercontinental Aerospace Command was established, but was used for the UNITY Program for the first time due to the FEES launch delay.

On 16th August 2018, we announced:
„Based on the Contract between GPAP (Italy) and CSPD (Serbia) from 4Q 2019, Serbia will officially have its mission in the Space by launching Italian FEES (Flexible Experimental Embedded Satellite) in low Earth orbit (height: 575km, orbit: SSO, Soyuz / Russia)“, but due to such a long delay, the CSPD has focused its work on the implementation of other projects at the international level and one of the results is the launch of 3 UNITY Satellites on 28th February 2021 as part of the INDO-SERBIA Initiative, which is officially the first Space mission. The FEES Program is equally important for us because FEES Satellite, in addition to data and images important for analysis and further work, also transmits a sentence in Serbian language. Anyone who receives the FEES Satellite signal and decodes it will find out the content of the sentence. Since the transmitting is on amateur radio frequencies, receiving the message (sentence) is available to everyone. In this way we want to animate young researchers to involve themselves in communication with man-made objects in Space, to motivate them to expand their knowledge, skills and perspectives, to influence on their development (growing up) in a slightly different, but very interesting way.

UNITY satellites launched successfully

UNITY Program (INDO-SERBIA Initiative / CSPD – TSC)

Launch vehicle: PSLV C51 (ISRO);
Lift-off: At 10:24 AM IST, Sunday February 28, 2021 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota;
Number of Satellites in PSLV C51: 19;
Number of UNITYsats: 3 (JITsat, GHRCEsat and SriShakthiSat);
First signal received from all 3 UNITYsats: Over Serbia (CSPD’s Ground Station) at 03:27 PM IST same day;
UNITYsats status: Functional;
Altitude: 513 km
Object: 2021-015H
Orbit: Sun-synchronous