The students of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Technology for Women here are building a small satellite for studying ultraviolet radiation and its impacts.
If everything falls into place, WESAT, short for ‘Women Engineered SATellite,’ will be launched aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) later this year.
A project of the institute’s Space Club, the ‘nanosatellite’ weighing 1 kg is billed as the country’s first satellite to be designed fully under the supervision of women.
