It was a proud moment for COEP when Dr. Vedachalam, director of ISRO arrived in Pune from Piruanantapuram, at 1pm on 10 October. Despite a long journey, Dr. Vedachalam carried his enthusiasm to the college for his scheduled meet with our faculty and students.
First of all, Dr. Vedachalam was greeted by our director, Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe. Later on, Rahul Kulkarni, project manager of COEP Satellite team, showed him the satellite tracking system at ground station of COEP Satellite project located on the terrace of Metallurgy Department. The ground station was assembled a few days back and as a result, COEP is now able to track any LEP satellite going over the campus.
Next followed a visit to the FABLAB where a demo of all working subsystems of CSAT was displayed. He appreciated the work done by our students. After the brief demo, COEP Satellite team presented their detailed work and progress towards satellite making project. This session lasted for more than 5 hours and comprised of a discussion between Dr. Vedachalam and our SAT team expert students, leaving sir impressed. SAT team also submitted documents for conceptual and preliminary design review to Dr. Raghavmurthy, chairman small satellite program at ISRO. The SAT team is expecting their response soon.
On 11th October, Dr. Vedachalam delivered two lectures for all COEPians. First lecture on the topic of ‘Space Transportation for National Development’ started at 9.30am with a huge response from faculty and students from all years. Dr. Vedachalam elaborated on evolution of space technology in India, specifically in ISRO and on various missions planned ahead. He recited a story of how Chandrayan-I proposal was put forward by ISRO which unfortunately got rejected by Wajpeyi, Prime Minister of India at the time. A.P.J later suggested them to launch probe to moon carrying Indian tricolour and dramatically, Wajpeyi announced it with the slogan ‘Hum Jayenge Chandrayaan-I’ on 15th August. COEPians enjoyed Dr. Vedachalam’s talk as it was not on entertaining, but also informative. Dr. Vedachalam concluded the first lecture by briefing about ISRO’s proposed mission to Mars which is only possible at two specific times in coming decade 2013 and 2017.
The next session on ‘Challenges faced by ISRO: successes, failures and learning’ commenced at 2pm. Dr. Vedachalam, being involved in more than 100 missions of ISRO chared his own experiences regarding challenges faced by ISRO; right from the development of SLV-III to PSLV and GSLV followed by Chandrayaan-I. Unknown albudo values of the moon caused the failure of Chandrayaan-I. He discussed many more issues relating to consistent trial and error strategies. His visit intended supporting and appreciating the COEP Satellite team and encouraged our COEPians for research in space technology.
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