National Small Satellites Symposium - SEDS India National Conference 2009

The National Small Satellite Symposium was held on 28 Feb and 1 march 2009 as a part of SEDS India National Conference (SINC’09). The symposium was a platform for all the university students’ satellite projects across the country to interact with each other and share their knowledge for mutual benefit. Teams from IIT Mumbai, SBMJ college, Bangalore and IIT Chennai and VITU participated in the symposium and gave  a technical presentation of their projects in front of a panel consisting of experts in field of satellite technology. The symposium started with Dr. Geetha Manivasgam, co-convener of SINC’09 welcoming the reviewer panel. It was followed by a brief introduction of the satellite project of each team. Each team was asked to give an overview of their project aim, mission and work done till date.  This concluded the first day of the symposium.              

On the second day all the teams gave a 60 minutes technical presentation before the panel. The panel critically examined and reviewed the work done by each team and gave suggestion to solve the technical problems faced by them and improve the quality of work done. Mementos were given to every member of the panel by Prof Asokamani and Prof Natarajan as a token of gratitude. Finally a vote of thanks was presented with which the symposium concluded.

No of colleges participated:  

1) IIT Bombay                      

2) Sri Bhagwan Mahavir Jain College Of Engg.                      

3) IIT Madras                      

4) VIT University

Reviewers Panel  :  

1) Dr. Raghava Murthy, Director Small System Satellites                     

2) Dr. Venugopalan, ISAC Banglore                     

3) Mr. A. Loganathan, ISAC Banglore                     

4) Mr. C. Prabhakaran, ISAC Banglore                     

 5) Mr. V. Mahadevan, ISAC Banglore

We hope that even other colleges and universities hold such symposium inviting our members to participate and mutually share knowledge and experience in building satellite sub systems for small satellites. We also thank the Reviewers Panel for reviewing these projects and pointing out ways for participants' to solve technical difficulties.