What is SpaceShare | Who can Apply | Is it Expensive | How do I Apply | Deadlines
Satellize announces the launch of SpaceShare, a unqiue opportunity for you to fly your payload into space for free.
SpaceShare is a joint initiative of ISRO and Exseed Space to provide free experimental space missions in order to encourage the participation of Indian universities, colleges and NGO’s in India’s Space Program.
- Upto 10 payloads will be accepted. Only Academic Institutions, NGOs and other governmental agencies/public sector can apply
- All the 10 payloads will be integrated into the SpaceShare chassis and launched on PS4 (Fourth stage) of a forthcoming PSLV flight.
- The SpaceShare payloads will be in a polar Orbit. The platform will have no stablization.
- Each payload is on a 16cm x 10 cm Eurocard sized circuit board. It is is provided with 5v, 1A (5 watts power supply) and a 9.6 Kbps serial data link to the ground
- The payload owner (you) will be able to access your data through your browser.
It is a technological breakthrough that democratizes space by removing all the technology, cost and time hurdles. SpaceShare will take ten experimental space missions that will be hosted on a shared platform for power and communications.
Until now, undertaking a space mission required learning everything from how rockets work to which radio system to use to what kind of space grade batteries to buy. In effect, you had to be a rocket scientist. No longer.
At Satellize, we have removed all that complication. Instead, you get to just build your mission on a circuit board (Eurocard size: 16 cm x 10 cm) into our chassis of ten similar systems. Each mission will be provided with 5v, 1A regulated power supply and a 9.6 kbps serial link to the ground control.
Once your mission is in space, you can control and command your mission via any Internet browser.
This opportunity is available only for non-commercial entities. You may apply as a college, school, institution, research organization or an NGO. We will finalize 10 space missions from all applicants that will all go into the SpaceShare chassis.
You will have to test it to withstand space environment (vacum, vibration and temperature swings). We (Satellize Team) will help you with all these.
This is an opportunity for all those who dream of flying their own space mission to learn space technology.
If you are interested, you fill the form out. You will receive an invitation letter for your proposal from Satellize within 2 working days of filling the form. Send us your proposal, detailing the objective of the mission. before October 15.
Shortlisted proposals will be informed by October 20 and will be invited to sign an agreement and attend a one-day workshop. Selected applicants are invited to attend the space-crafting workshop on October 31 and sign the agreement. Upto 2 participants per application will learn the nuts and bolts of making space grade payloads.
You will also be carried through the Integration Control Document (ICD) which specifies how your payload integrates with the SpaceShare system, various subsystems interact with environmental, EMI, and other factors.
You will have 6 weeks to build the payloads and prepare the ICD. Submit your payloads for functional testing along with the ICD by December 13.
Integration of the payloads into the SpaceShare chassis will happen by December 20.
Testing of fully assembled SpaceShare system and delivery to ISRO will happen by December 27.
You will need to budget for very minimal costs. The amount spent building your own payload (electronics, sensors, etc.) will be up to you. Thermovac testing and vibration testing will have to be paid to a third party (estimate around Rs.1 lakh per round of testing. Your team’s travel and stay at Hyderabad for the workshop is borne by you.
Will our teams be trained in building missions for Space?
Yes. There will be a one-day Space-crafting workshop at Hyderabad where up to two members of your team will learn the nuts and bolts of making space grade payloads.
You will also be carried through the Integration Control Document (ICD) which specifies how your payload integrates with the SpaceShare system, various subsystems interact with environmental, EMI, and other factors.
| Deadline for receiving applications from interested institutions/organizations with brief summary of proposed mission | Oct 7 |
| Selected applicants to attend the spacecrafting one-day workshop at Hyderabad | Oct 12 |
| Submission of Mission Information. Scope, and Design (as per Integration Control Document) | Oct 16 |
| Submit the Integration Control Document (all remaining sections) | Oct 31 |
| Delivery of Tested SpaceShare Cards for integration into SpaceShare Chassis | Nov 26 |
| Integration of various payloads into the SpaceShare Chassis | Nov 27 |
| Testing of fully assembled Spaceshare/td> | Nov 29 |
| Delivery of SpaceShare to ISRO | Dec 6 |
| Launch of SpaceShare by ISRO | Dec 27 |
The actual launch dates however are to be determined only by ISRO based on the primary payload launch schedule. Satellize may therefore, at its own discretion, extend the project schedule deadlines, if it so determines.
If you are interested, please fill out the form right away.