Sanket Deshpande — a final year engineering student at BITS Pilani, Goa — has not taken a single vacation in four years. Instead, Sanket and four other engineering students at the engineering institute spent their time in building a near space micro satellite named ‘Apeiro’ with the aim to study space weather and radiation patterns. The project began with an idea that Sanket had in mind while he was in his first year back in 2014. “A lot of my seniors had worked on space weather and had highlighted the need to study radiations in space in the past. But thankfully, TIFR offered to launch the satellite at their ballooning facility in Hyderabad at no cost,” said Aishwarya Pravin, a Project Apeiro member.

Source: dna November 05, 2017 08:15 UTC