October 5, 2024

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InQube – India’s first open-source satellite to be launched this month


India’s first open-source satellite ‘InQube’ will be launched this month with the help of Indian Space Agency- ISRO. InQube was developed by Onkar Batra, a 12th-standard student at BSF Senior Secondary School in Jammu. It was prepared under the banner of Paradox Sonic Space Research Agency and will be launched this month with the help of ISRO.

Onkar Batra Neb said that it weighs one kilogram and has been developed with the help of nanotechnology. He said that many universities and researchers in foreign countries are doing such work, so they decided to launch it in space with the help of India’s ISRO agency.

In India, the cost for its launch is  ₹20-80 lakhs, while in foreign countries this price goes into crores. He said that every satellite launched into space has a special mission.

It also has two missions. One is whether such a lightweight satellite can work in space, the other will look at the temperature there to help researchers know what the weather conditions are like and how hard it is if they want to launch a satellite in space. Ware should be used.