KL Alumni develops payload CubeSat LakshyaSat-2: Launched by India's first privately developed rocket 'Vikram-S'
Historic moment for KL Deemed to be University as one of its alumni Sai Divya has designed and developed a payload, CubeSat LakshyaSat-2, which was launched into space by Vikram-S, India's first privately developed rocket. The rocket was successfully sent to space from SHAR, Sriharikota by Skyroot through India's first private rocket. It was a suborbital flight. Divya completed her M.Tech from KL Deemed to be University with specialization in Communication and Radar Systems.
LakshyaSat-2 payload has seven sensors that can measure pressure, temperature, humidity, and various parameters and collects flight data even in extremely vulnerable conditions.
For seven months, Divya, founder of N Space Tech, and her business partner and co-founder Raghuram Kothamas built LakshyaSAT II and set up a telecommunication module and a few other communication subsystems to improve the previous version.
In March 2022, CubeSat LakshyaSAT I was launched successfully with the help of a high-altitude balloon into the stratosphere from the United Kingdom. After its success, Divya started working on LakshyaSat-2. Currently, she is busy working on the next version of LakshyaSAT, which will be launched into low earth orbit through Vikram I. Her dream project is the orbital launch of 1U CubeSat, which will establish two-way communication and send a constellation of CubeSats for improved communication.
Right from her childhood Sai Divya was fascinated with space and satellites. She is a native of Tenali and a research scholar in Satellite Communications. She completed her graduation in Electronics and Communication engineering from Bapatla Engineering College.
Divya expressed joy in watching the rocket launch from Sriharikota live and sharing the stage with her role models. One of the proudest moments of my life was receiving the flight certificate from B2Space certifying the successful launch. It gave me the confidence to delve more into this. Soon after, I got the chance to join Vikram S, and I wanted to make the most of it, so I worked hard, said Divya.
Divya got motivated to create her satellite after listening to a US-based professor at a CubeSat workshop. Speaking about the reason she founded N Space Tech, Divya said, "When I needed a CubeSat for research purposes and contacted a few companies, the price was so high that I couldn't afford them." So, I founded N Space Tech to build simply deployable, low-cost tiny satellites, to bring space technology to the masses, and to excite young minds.
