Fly High!

19 December 2022.

The GerhanaSat Challenge 2022 is a competition organized by Independence X to provide participants with satellite design, build, test and operate at a low cost.

It consists of 3 main challenges: the telemetry and telecommand, rover docking challenge and innovation challenge. For telemetry and telecommand challenge, the team was required to send data and receive data at 1 second interval for 2 minutes with a home developed antenna.

There was also a bonus challenge, whereby a payload containing a parachute was dropped from the satellite.
For rover docking challenge, a rover was developed to avoid several physical obstacles to get to the docking station and push the tactile switch on the docking station.

For the innovation challenge, a prototype was developed to solve real problems. Team APEX Orbiters, solved this challenge, by developing a rover, that would detect undiscovered mines and send its location points to satellite. The satellite then stores and forwards data to a ground station.

Team Name : APEX Orbiters

Team member name :
1. Rishee Kumar (Leader) - School of Aerospace Engineering
2. Anis Afiqah Arshah - School of Aerospace Engineering
3. Nathaniel Darren - School of Mechanical Engineering
4. Mohtar Immansyah - School of Aerospace Engineering
5. Siva Aruth Sudar- School of Aerospace Engineering

Supervisor : Dr. Mohd Azmi Ismail (School of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus)

Industrial mentor : Mr Amirul Aiman Rahmat (SpaceIn)

Text and image : Mr Mohamad Zihad Mahmud