A childhood fascination with space and satellites has driven Kurapati Sai Divya to design and develop a 1U Cubesat — a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The CubeSat LakshyaSAT was successfully launched into the stratosphere from the United Kingdom in March this year.
Sai Divya is a research scholar in Satellite Communications and hails from Tenali. An engineering graduate in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bapatla Engineering College, Sai Divya completed her M.Tech from KL University specialising in Communication and Radar Systems. She later enrolled in a Ph.D programme in Satellite Communications. It was during a presentation by a US-based professor at a workshop on Cubesat, that she was inspired to build a satellite of her own.
“The COVID-19 lockdown gave me all the time to pursue my dream and the research took one year. In 2021, I started developing the prototype and all the subsystems such as payload, computing, power, and data logging were designed and built,” Ms. Sai Divya said.
