Bringing Space Mission to MGRians

Successful Launch of Femto Cube Sats

Dr.MGRERI in association with Space Zone India, Chennai and APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation (AKIF) was a proud participant of  " Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Space Research Payload Cubes Challenge – 2021. 30 space enthusiastic students from various disciplines of Dr.MGRERI underwent an online training course on the design strategies of Femto satellites followed by hands-on training conducted by experts from Space Zone India, paved the way to effectively design and develop Three Dr.M.G.R. Femto Cube Sats.
The day 7th Feb 2021 brought a new hope in the history of India, set the record by launching 100 Femto satellites in high-altitude scientific balloons from the birth place of former President of India, Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Rameswaram, Tamilnadu. The launching ceremony was graced by the Hon’ Telangana Governor, Dr, Tamilisai Soundararajan over video conferencing. She instilled on the thoughts of Kalam and his strong desire to learn and study. She acclaimed the ambitious initiatives of students towards the space education.
Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai, Founder CEO of Brahmos Aerospace and former Chief Controller of R&D, DRDO was the guest of Honour, who voiced on the prominence of cultivating space science to young children across our nation by this mission. He spoke with a lot of fervour on Dr. Kalam’s thought on instilling the courage to dream in many people.
Earlier, a team comprising of 5 of our students (I, II, III yr of E&T) lead by Dr. Anand Megalingam,CEO & Founder, Space Zone India (P)Ltd arrived at Rameswaram a week before for pre-launch ground station work and efficiently involved in PCB assembling procedure, simulation work on the trajectory motion of payloads and pre- testing of scientific balloons .
Thereafter the final check of wind direction and speed, the countdown for the launching event of high-altitude scientific balloons was pronounced by the SSLV Scientist, Mr.D.Gokul of ISRO at 10:45 AM which was recurred by the thunderous crowd with lots of gusto and excitement. One of our Dr.M.G.R. Femto Cube Sats was launched in the first balloon and the other two in second balloon being accomplished after a while.
It was thrilling to see the launch of 100 CubeSats which was a culmination of massive and continuation efforts put in by the students and the expertise. The crew at the launch pad embraced each other for its successful launching, whose happiness readily swifted across our university via text messages and photos.
The Tech team was appreciated with a happy note from our Prime Minister, Shri. Narendra Modi for having unified the 1000 young children across the nation towards the global mission. This momentous event was also acknowledged with certificate of appreciation from Asia Book of Records, Assist Book of records, World Book of Records and Guinness book of records.
We thank our President, Er. Thiru. A.C.S. Arun Kumar for having granted an unimaginable opportunity for our students to fine tune their dreams in space education. We also thank all our executives who supported in making this space education, a memorable one.