The Anna University Satellite, or ANUSAT was an Indian student research

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designed, developed and integrated at Aerospace Engineering,

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(MIT),

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. Students and faculty members of

and

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were involved in the design of ANUSAT. The project director of the ANUSAT was Dr. P. Dhanraj, CASR, Madras Institute of Technology, Chromepet. It carries an amateur radio and technology demonstration experiments. It was successfully Integrated at the clean room facility at MIT, Chrompet, Chennai and launched aboard a PSLV-CA designated PSLV-C12, along with

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, from the Second Launch Pad at the

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. The launch was carried out at 01:15

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(06:45

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) on 20 April 2009. The satellite's development was sponsored by the

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, who were also responsible for launch services. ANUSAT was a cube with long sides, and a mass of . It carried an amateur radio

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communications system, and also conducted technological research. This satellite was spin stabilized and

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is pointed normal towards the sun. The satellite was integrated and tested at MICSAT, the

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Chromepet clean room. As on January 9, 2012, ANUSAT completed 15287 orbits around the earth thereby exceeding its intended mission life of two years.

References

*http://mitindia.edu/en/phd-research/electronics *http://mitindia.edu/en/103-mitindia/departments/aerospace/aero-staff/438-prof-r-dhanaraj

External links

AIAA IEEE Research articleANUSAT Webpage
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