Space Technology Cell (STC)
DSCE and ISRO signed a MoU to establish STC in the DSCE on April 29th at ISTRAC, Peenya, Bangalore.
Motivation for the STC
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, and the Indian Space Research Organization, Government of India, recognized the friendly relations between the two agencies and their willingness to cooperate in the area of academia as a common interest for establishing the Space Technology Cell, considering the mutual benefits and the need to strengthen cooperation within the field of Space Science and Technology.
This initiative, aims at promoting and strengthening scientific & technical exchange and cooperation between scientists, engineers of ISTRAC, and academicians and students of DSCE in the field of Space Science and Technology.
Vision:
To strengthen the milieu of academic alliance, making it the place of choice to work and grow, by fostering intellectuals in the creation of novelty in Space Science and Technology.
Mission:
- Enhancement of Students’ knowledge and skills leading to the advances in Space Industry.
- Augmenting faculty contribution towards R&D and innovation in Space Technologies.
- All endeavors of the cell to lay emphasis on welfare of the society / man-kind
Long term objective:
Development of Satellite based technologies and to own a students’ satellite to demonstrate their capabilities and thereby improve upon the societal benefit
OBJECTIVE:
- Cooperative institutional relationship to encourage the faculty and students towards the Space Science & Technology
- Evolve in to an institute to design and develop a Satellite.
Functional Modalities:
- Exchange and training of scientific and technical personnel
- Exchange of available scientific and technological information and data
- Implementation of education and training programs in the institution related to space communication
- Organizing of workshops, seminars for the working groups
- Transfer of equipment, know-how, and technology and technical standards on a non-commercial basis
- Development of joint research or technical projects on subjects of mutual interest
- Exchange visits by Government officials and technical experts for sharing of experiences on space communication, policies, frameworks, and technologies
- Promoting space-related education and innovation
ISTRAC
Mr B N Rama Krishna Director, ISTRAC
Mr M R Raghavendra Deputy Director, ISTRAC
Mr Sreenath ISRO Scientist Nodal Officer STC Manager, ISSDC, ISTRACDCSE
Dr Smitha Sasi Associate Professor Chair-STC SPOC Student Satellite Launch Initiative:
We are proud to share that the Space Technology Cell,Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, has signed an MoU with Gonagoor Technology for the development of an Aerial and Orbital Satellite. Upcoming launch of DSCE Student Satellite “Vishnu Chakra” in November 2025, in collaboration with Gonagoor Technologies and ISTRAC, Sathish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota. This prestigious project is a collaborative effort involving the following departments: Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, MCA (VTU),Data Science (CSE) ,Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Aeronautical Engineering
This initiative is expected to bring nationwide recognition to our institute and showcases our interdisciplinary strength in driving cutting-edge space technology.
Target Launch Date of Satellite : Second week of November 2025
This initiative is expected to bring nationwide recognition to our institute and showcases our interdisciplinary strength in driving cutting-edge space technology.
Report of the Activities under STC – DSCE -ISTRAC
- Space Technology Cell (STC) in association with ISRTAC, Bangalore is established in the department of ETE, DSCE for which the MOU was signed on 29th April 2024 at ISTRAC centre.
- Infrastructure set up for STC at DSCE is in process. Request mail to all the
Directors of ISRO centres and New Space India Ltd across India has been sent for procuring Satellite Sub System Elements for the cell.
- Internship/project:
Three students from the Department of Information Science and Engineering have been selected to carrying out Project in U R Rao Satellite Centre on “GUI based data analysis for Class Data from Chandrayaan” Dr.Shyama Narendranath Scientist,U R Rao satellite Centre. The students are working on the software for the same, which will bear the name of the institute on the website of ISRO as “Powered by DSCE” in ISRO Website.
Students from the Department of AI Ml and Three Data Science pursuing internship on Disaster management Data analysis in “BHUVAN” portal ,NRSC Centre
Three students from department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering doing 6 months project in Anamonly detection on the datas received by the isro satellites using deep learning and Debris ,ISTRAC under Ms Priyanaka,scientist ,ISTRAC
- Discussion with a company named Indo-Science and ISRO are in progress to train the students of DSCE for the “launch of Student Satellite”.
For this Cell, all the Satellite Models launched by ISRO are procured as given below: o MANGALAYAAN 1:30 o CHANDRAYAAN 1:30 o OCEAN SAT 1:30 o CARTO SAT 1:30 o RESOURCE SAT 1:30 o PSLV …. to impart the awareness of various satellite launched by ISRO
Students from departments of ETE, ISE, AI-ML, Mechanical and Aeronautical along with one faculty coordinator have been identified for the training.
First round of orientation and Project selection has been conducted with the scientists and employees of Indo – Science Company with the faculty coordinators and some students.
On February 20th, 2025 the Space Technology Cell conducted a presentation on satellite design, where teams from AI/ML, ME, EEE, Data Science, and Aeronautical departments presented their ideas. The ISRO scientists and the Indo-Science team reviewed the proposals, and among the three proposed ideas, "OceanScan" was identified as the most feasible. This idea was proposed by Madhuri, a 3rd-semester Data Science student.