SEDS KCT

Date: 04^th October 2021 - 10^th October 2021
Venue: MS Teams

Kosmorena is the annual event organised by SEDS KCT to celebrate Space Week to create awareness about space science among school and college students all around the world. We connect students and enhance their skills to bring out the creativity in them through various insightful talks, webinars and other exciting events.

Kosmorena ’21 focuses on the advancement of technology in the space sector. We aim to provide the students with all the necessary skills to build their career in space.

So let’s join together for a fun filled learning experience.

THEME: Innovating Space for Improving Earth

Event Outline:

Tech Talks – A Benchmark event of Kosmorena includes a series of technical talks with expert speakers from all over the world to provide an in-depth knowledge on a particular topic.

TECH TALK-1

TOPIC : Guidance of Spacecraft Swarm

SPEAKER : Dr. Yashwanth Nakka

( Postdoctoral scholar at CALTECH University )

TIMING : 7:30 – 8:30 pm

DATE : 4/10/2021

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/msnKCQCduy

 TECH TALK-2 

TOPIC : Avionics and Flight Operation

SPEAKER : Mr. Abbinav Muralidharan

( Avionics flight controller and spacecraft systems engineer at NASA )

TIMING : 7:30 – 8:30 pm

DATE : 5/10/2021

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/4mAknUrg1p

TECH TALK-3

TOPIC : Communication system design for Satellites

SPEAKER : Dr. V. Mahadhevan

( Scientist ISRO (R) / professor ECE dept PES University (R))

TIMING : 4.00-5.00 pm

DATE : 6/10/21

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/xtgPuCfJ3T

 TECH TALK- 4

TOPIC : Our Universe from Quarks to Quasars

SPEAKER : Mr. Rishabh Naakra

( Physicist/founder of “secrets of universe” )

TIMING : 5.00-6.00 pm

DATE : 7/10/21

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/9zjy2RemWZ

Workshop – Kosmorena’21 workshop focuses on providing insights on Matlab, a widely used software for analyzing spacecraft’s telemetry and payload data, designing detailed guidance, navigation and control algorithms, analysing RF and digital signals, etc.

TITLE: Matlab for Aerospace applications

TOPICS COVERED: Flight Dynamics of Rocket, Guidance, Navigation and Control of Rockets

SPEAKER: Vinayak Desh

DATE: 8/10/2021

TIME: 6:00 – 8:00 pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/xnhND9vqas

Project Webinars – A collab event with two fellow SEDS chapters to provide insightful webinars on various projects.

WEBINAR 1

TOPIC : CubeSats

SPEAKER: EINSAT / SEDS Celestia

DATE: 9/10/21 & 10/10/21

TIME: 10.00-11.00 am

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/gbTz1wqjAZ

WEBINAR 2

TOPIC : Design of Autonomous Drones

SPEAKER: Team Arda / SEDS VIT

DATE: 10/10/21

TIME: 4.00-5.00 pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/xLeGJTeC6D

Career Guidance – An informative session which provides insightful guidance and clarifies all your doubts to set a well defined path for your career in space.

EXPECTED ATTENDEES: School students

SPEAKER: Nikhitha C

(Founder and CEO, SSERD)

DATE: 9/10/2021

TIME: 3.00 – 4.00 pm

REGISTRATION LINK: https://forms.office.com/r/fruV6Mu96S

Space Design Challenge – A wisest choice for designers to showcase their designing skills in a National Level Design Challenge where the participants are expected to design a sounding rocket capable of carrying 1U cubesat or a 3U satellite with any payload of their interest.

MAIL YOUR WORKS TO [email protected] (SUBJECT: Space Design Challenge | Satellite (or Rocketry))

EXPECTED PARTICIPANTS: UG and PG students from any domain.

PROBLEM STATEMENTS:

• Sounding Rocket (capable of carrying 1U cubesat)
• Cube Satellite (3U satellite for any specific application)

LAST DATE TO REGISTER: 5th October 2021

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Before 20th October 2021

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.office.com/r/wKVFJbZkt8