SEDS BPHC was founded in April 2019 by a group of students with a burning passion for aerospace. Today the club has proudly grown into an 80+ member strong team. The club started out by competing in the Spaceport America Cup, and has since expanded to cubesats, cansats, rocket motors and thrust vector control projects.

The team is an amalgamation of undergraduate students from almost all fields of engineering and science in our college. Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Biology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Physics are to name a few.

SEDS BPHC made its debut in the prestigious competition of Spaceport America Cup in 2021. Among the four BITS Pilani campuses, we were the first & only one to participate in the SA Cup.

For our category, the goal was to build a rocket 8 feet long, weighing approximately 28kg, which flies upto 10,000 feet and uses Commercially-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solid rocket motors. Currently the team is working on building rckeets to participate in various global avenues.

Team Janus represents our campus in the annual international CanSat competition. The CanSat competition is designed to reflect a typical aerospace program on a small scale. Every year, unique challenges are designed to reflect real-world missions, including telemetry requirements, communications, and autonomous operations.

For the 2021 mission, the team was required to develop two auto-rotating science payloads that descend like a maple-seed, to be integrated into the CanSat container. The team reached the CDR stage despite the covid pandemic!

For the 2022 competition, the payload should be connected to the container via a 10m long tether. The mission requires the payload camera to maintain an orientation of 45 degrees south consistently.

We hope to achieve new apogees of success in the esteemed competition.

Cubesats are small, highly sophisticated satellites with a wide range of applications, including communication, earth observation, and defence.

The team is working on two satellites: NEMOlite and NEMO.

The 1U satellite NEMOlite, which will be launched in the coming years, will act as a demonstration satellite, demonstrating our capabilities to build and deploy satellites. The primary goal is to gain some flight time and put the Altitude Determination and Control Subsystems(ADCS) to the test. The NEMO satellite is a remote sensing satellite that will track the level of microplastic in the Gulf of Mannar. NEMO is expected to launch in the distant future.

We hope that the data obtained by our observation satellite will assist independent researchers, institutions, and state governments better maintain and protect the ecosystem.

This is the R&D division of SEDS BPHC. Once technologies mature here, they would be implemented into our various projects. Currently we’re working on:

Thrust Vector Control - It is the ability of a rocket to maintain its trajectory in motion by manipulating the direction of thrust coming out of the exhaust of the engine.

Rocket Motors - We’ve designed, built and tested E, I, G, and K-class solid rocket motors. We intend to move towards M-class and hybrid rocket motors next.

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