KALPANA CHAWLA CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY              

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Context

• The Government informed that Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science and Technology (KCCRSST) was inaugurated at Chandigarh University in January 2022.

 

Details

• The Centre has the objectives of training students in space science, satellite development, meet future challenges in space research ensuring India’s leading position in future technologies.
• The centre will be the ground control station for Chandigarh University's Student Satellite (CUSat). CUSat is an in-house nano-satellite being designed by the students of the university, along with a Geo-Spatial Centre for research.

CUSat The CUSat will be among the 75 student-built satellites to be launched into space on the eve of the 75th Independence Day in 2022. With the launch of CUSat, Punjab will become the first border state in India to have its own satellite in space. The launch of the university’s nanosatellite-CUSAT will prove to be an important step for the country, as it will collect data related to border intrusion detection, agriculture, weather forecasting, natural disaster forecasting, which will be helpful in research and study of various problems in these areas.

 

• The Ground Control Station will help develop satellite research facilities and launch satellites in countries that do not have developed satellite technology.
• The GCS under the KCCRSST will monitor majority of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites including CUSAT. Being a member of SatNOGS project, it will be monitoring more than 380 satellites with over 810 transmitters in more than 50 Countries.

 

 

SatNOGS The SatNOGS (Satellite Networked Open Ground Station) project was initiated during NASA SpaceApps Challenge in 2014 at Athens Hackerspace. SatNOGS is currently a project of the Libre Space Foundation. SatNOGS (Satellite Networked Open Ground Station) project is a free software and open source hardware platform aimed to create a satellite ground station network. It seeks to address the problem of connecting many satellite users/observers to many ground station operators. The scope of the project is to create a full stack of open technologies based on open standards, and the construction of a full ground station. SatNOGS aims to provide a stack of technologies needed for a distributed network of low Earth orbit satellite ground stations. Copyright infringement not intended

 

Significance

• Through Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science and Technology, Chandigarh University will help in developing satellite research facilities in 57 countries including Brazil, Egypt, Colombia, Turkey as well as train foreign students for satellite design and development
• Only through efforts like establishment of the KCCRSST, India can become a leader in future technologies.
• This research facility would touch new heights of success, similar to the remarkable achievements of the late India-born astronaut who brought universal recognition to her country of origin.

 

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