Dr K Sivan, Secretary, DOS/Chairman, ISRO inaugurated today the Ground stations established for UNITYsat, the combination of ‘3 Satellites’ designed and built as a Joint Development by Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Sriperumpudur (JITsat), G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur (GHRCEsat) and Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore (Sri Shakthi Sat).

The ground stations located at Chennai, Nagpur and Coimbatore will be a network for monitoring the UNITYsat in orbit which will be launched by PSLV C51 On the occasion, M/s Skyroot representatives also met Dr K Sivan, Secretary, DOS/ Chairman, ISRO and he assured all support to M/s Skyroot for testing and qualifying their launch vehicle. Shri R Umamaheswaran, Scientific Secretary, ISRO, signed the agreement on behalf of DOS and Mr Pawan Chandana, CEO, M/s Skyroot Aerospace signed the agreement from the company side. The NDA was signed in the presence of Shri S Somanath, Director, VSSC and other senior officials of ISRO/DOS.