[Legacy Report] IEEE STB17791 Industrial Visit to Indian Deep Space Network, ISRO
60 students from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Matrusri Engineering College undertook an Industrial Visit to the Indian Deep Space Network, Indian Space Research Organization at Bylalu, Karnataka. The students were provided with information on current operations and challenges in Indian Space research and how one can take an active part in the same.
The Indian Deep Space Network has been built to track and support India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, an unmanned lunar exploration mission. It was launched on 22 October 2008. The IDSN was used for tracking, orbit control and housekeeping operations of India's lunar mission for its entire duration of operation (Planned was 2 years though achieved only 312 days). IDSN began to track Chandrayaan 17 minutes after its launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Launch Centre at Sriharikota, when the satellite separated from the launch vehicle. The Indian Deep Space Network consists of a 18-m and a 32-m antennae that are established at the IDSN campus, Byalalu, Bangalore. The Network is augmented with a couple of stations in the western hemisphere in addition to the 64-m antenna in Bearslake, Russia to improve the visibility duration and to provide support from the antipodal point.
The existing ISTRAC S-Band Network stations will be used to support the mission during Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) that includes Earth Transfer Orbit (ETO) up to a range of about 1,00,000 km. Although the 18-m antenna is tailored for Chandrayaan-1 mission, the 32-m antenna can also support other planetary missions. The established IDSN is a state-of-the-art system, with its base band system adhering to CCSDS (Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems) Standards, thus facilitating cross-support among other TTC agencies. The supporting network stations will ensure the adequacy of the link margin for telemetry/dwell, tracking, tele command and payload data reception. The IDSN station has the responsibility of receiving the spacecraft health data as well as the payload data in real time. Later, conditioning of the data takes place, before onward transmission of the same to Mission Operations Complex at Bangalore. The tracking data comprising Range, Doppler and Angle data will be transferred to the control center for the purpose of orbit determination. The payload data will be transmitted to the Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC) as and when received by the payload data acquisition system, located at the station.
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- Bangalore, Karnataka
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N. Lakshminarayana of Indian Deep Space Network, ISRO
Current Operations and Challenges In Indian Space Research
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Address:Bangalore, India