Source:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/cusat-students-demonstrate-new-payload-retrieval-system/articleshow/74216113.cms
“The objective was to prove that the payload, developed by Advanced Centre for Atmospheric Radar Research (ACARR), Cusat, for weather research, could be launched to high altitudes using nitrogen-filled balloons, tracked, retrieved and reused. Sensors and equipment like radiosonde worth Rs 12,000 could be sent up like this and brought back and reused avoiding the loss of huge amounts for each launch,” said Timothy Simon Thomas, a student and the mission director.
“The payload retrieval system developed by Cusat students will lead to a long range of experiment prospects regarding space,” Nair said. Registrar K Ajitha, School of Engineering principal George Mathew, ACARR director K Mohankumar, electronics and communication division professor Rekha K James were present.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/cusat-students-demonstrate-new-payload-retrieval-system/articleshow/74216113.cms
The third year electronics and communication engineering
students of the School of Engineering (SoE), Cochin University of Science and
Technology (Cusat), successfully conducted the demonstration of a reusable
payload retrieval system developed by them. The payload retrieval system safely
brought down the weather forecast system payload, which scaled up to a height
of 30,000m, and sent data to earth on Wednesday. The demo of the project
‘Mission 100kft’ was held during the SoE’s tech fest ‘Dishna 2020’, which was
inaugurated by Indian Space Research Organisation former chairman G Madahavan
Nair.
“The objective was to prove that the payload, developed by Advanced Centre for Atmospheric Radar Research (ACARR), Cusat, for weather research, could be launched to high altitudes using nitrogen-filled balloons, tracked, retrieved and reused. Sensors and equipment like radiosonde worth Rs 12,000 could be sent up like this and brought back and reused avoiding the loss of huge amounts for each launch,” said Timothy Simon Thomas, a student and the mission director.
“The payload retrieval system developed by Cusat students will lead to a long range of experiment prospects regarding space,” Nair said. Registrar K Ajitha, School of Engineering principal George Mathew, ACARR director K Mohankumar, electronics and communication division professor Rekha K James were present.
