Aerospace
RV College of Engineering · 2024–25
RVSAT-1
RVCE’s student satellite, flown on ISRO’s PSLV-C60. A profile of what it takes to power and talk to a small spacecraft — not a claim to have built it.
- Programme
- RVCE student satellite
- Launch
- ISRO PSLV-C60
- Focus
- EPS, TT&C and payload operations
A small satellite is mostly a power problem. Every subsystem competes for watts that a body the size of a shoebox can collect, store and radiator-cool, and the telemetry and command link is the only thing standing between the mission and a very expensive piece of debris.
RVSAT-1 is the RVCE student satellite that flew aboard ISRO’s PSLV-C60. Its electrical architecture is the standard small-satellite shape — solar generation, battery storage, regulated distribution, and a TT&C chain that has to be heard on the ground pass and silent the rest of the time.
I keep this on the site as the reference I use when I think about constrained power systems, thermal limits and fault-tolerant electronics. It is a mission profile, not a project I delivered.
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