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the yPinSpace participants listening to one of the event's speakers.

concluded by Deepana Gandhi, a
broadband Internet from space. He
guidance, navigation, and control
discussed how Astrome is develop-
engineer with Team Indus, Bangalore.
ing next-generation technologies that
Team Indus is a unique jewel in the
will have great impact on people's
new space ecosystem in India. It is the
lives. High-speed broadband, which
only Indian team attempting to land a
is currently limited to urban areas,
spacecraft on the moon by participating
will be made location independent
in the Google Lunar
by advanced high-
X contest. It was also
throughput sat-
represented by Bhag-
e l lites. Divyanshu
To enlighten
yashree, who put for-
Poddar, who rep-
attendees about
ward the marketing
resents India's first
upcoming opporaspects of such an
private-sector foray
endeavor. They were
into model rocketry,
tunities in space
quick and enthusi-
Rocketeers (Ban-
exploration, a
astic in answering
galore), then talked
dedicated session
the questions raised
about bringing the
was conducted
by the attendees,
first solid-fuel-pow-
which varied from
ered rocket science
by officials from
funding to intellec-
to students in India.
start-ups across
tual property rights
Rocketeers produc-
India.
to the challenges in-
es solid-motor-fuel-
volved in running a
powered rockets as
start-up. YPinSpace
a medium for educa-
offered a unique opportunity for the
tion in the form of workshops on model
attendees to hear about the trials and
rocketry in India.
triumphs of these trailblazers in the
After the rockets and space dis-
arena of new space in India.
cussions, it was the time to talk about
When the sun set over this year's
low-cost sustainable solutions in satel-
edition of YPinSpace, there was a
lite fabrication, which was handled
sense of pride in all of the volunteers
by Raghav Sharma, who represented
for having pulled off such a behemoth
Xovian Technologies, New Delhi, India.
of an event, but most importantly,
He discussed various areas, such as
there was a look of achievement on
CanSats, sounding rockets, high-altitude
the face of every attendee, for they
balloons, and satellite components
managed to cross the first hurdle of
manufacturing. The session was
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their journey into new space. The
next meeting will be held in Barce-
lona, Spain, from 17 to 21 July, and
we are expecting the participation
of SMCS members as well. This year,
the Young Professionals Subcom-
mittee of Systems, Ma n, a nd Cy-
bernetics, led by György Eigner, is
involved in the volunteering work
regarding the organization of the
event. This will be the beginning of
a successful collaboration between
the Young Professionals Subcommit-
tee and the YpinSpace! initiative for
the upcoming years.
About the Author
Tushar Sharma (tsharm@ucalgary
.ca) earned his B.Tech. degree in
electronics and communications
engineering from Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University, Delhi, India.
He is currently pursuing his Ph.D.
degree at the University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. In 2016 and 2017, he
was with NXP Semiconductors,
Chandler, Arizona, as a research
and development design intern. His
current research interests include
high-efficiency broadband radio-fre-
quency power amplifiers, waveform
engineering techniques for power
amplifiers, and active/passive load-
pull techniques.



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