India, July 17 -- Indigenously designed and built by students of the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the nano-satellite SRMSAT-1 has completed 40,000 orbits since it was launched on October 12, 2011 from Sriharikota.

Speaking about the significant milestone, Dr S R S Prabaharan, Joint Director (Research) at SRMIST, said that the satellite has outlived its original life span of two years and continues to send data to the ground control centre in the campus at Kattankulathur in Kancheepuram district. Indeed, the satellite will complete nine years in space on October 11th this year.

An ambitious project conceived by SRMIST President Dr P Satyanarayanan, the satell...