Indian PSLV successfully lofts multiple satellites • Hacker News Board

stochastician wrote: post #3

One of the awesome satellites was BRITE, made by the UTIAS group http://universe.utoronto.ca/BRITE at the University of Toronto!

Also the awesome NEOSsat!

http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/neossat/

Re: Indian PSLV successfully lofts multiple satellites

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Post by sankalpshere » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 8:06 AM UTC

liquidwax wrote: post #11

playhard wrote: post #9

Video of the launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...

It looks like they're still using windows 98

What matters is how they are used! Computers used during first moon landing were less powerful than today's cellphone chip. :)

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Post by scorpion032 » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 8:29 AM UTC

teeboy wrote: post #2

Go ISRO! I wish the Indian Govt did one less scam a year and granted a 10X increase in ISRO budget. But you are doing some amazing work on an operating budget less than a big American University. Stay Strong ! And go Mars in 2014!

Exactly. One less scam a year shouldn't be too much to ask, so we can go to Mars in a year.

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Post by rushil92 » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 8:34 AM UTC

swatkat wrote: post #6

naanalla wrote: post #5

one thing particularly good about ISRO's recent strategy is to launch as many satellites as possible. It's cost effective and also helping academic satellites. and PSLV the workhorse of ISRO.

Yes. I am looking forward to seeing Antrix (ISRO's commercial division, http://www.antrix.gov.in ) doing more commercial launch services.

Aren't all these foreign satellites launched via the antrix programme?

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Post by pugmarx » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 9:10 AM UTC

sankalpshere wrote: post #15

liquidwax wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they're still using windows 98

What matters is how they are used! Computers used during first moon landing were less powerful than today's cellphone chip. :)

:D

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Post by msantos » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 9:55 AM UTC

Part of the payload is a nano satellite - STRaND-1 - developed by the University of Surrey (England), that amongst other things got a Google Nexus phone onboard loaded with a custom app which will test if "in space no-one can hear you scream" http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21577780

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Post by runejuhl » Tue, Feb 26, 2013, 12:20 PM UTC

manaskarekar wrote: post #14

stochastician wrote: post #3

One of the awesome satellites was BRITE, made by the UTIAS group http://universe.utoronto.ca/BRITE at the University of Toronto!

Also the awesome NEOSsat! http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/neossat/

And the awesome AAUSAT3: http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat3/

It's the third cubesat developed at Aalborg University in Denmark. From their homepage:

"The AAUSAT3 educational project was initiated in the fall 2007 - introducing students to all aspects of satellite design and development. The objective of the AAUSAT3 mission is to fly two different types of AIS (Automated Identifications System) receivers. One of the AIS receivers onboard AAUSAT3 is an SDR (Software Defined Radio) based AIS receiver. The other AIS receiver is a conventional hardware receiver. The goal of AAUSAT3 is to investigate the quality of ship monitoring from space."

-- http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat3/index.php?n=Tech.AAUSAT3InDe...