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'''RAAVANA-1''' is Sri Lanka's first research satellite built by two Sri Lankan youths.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> It is a cube-sized [[Small satellite|miniature satellite]] built by Tharindu Dayaratne an Electrical and Electronics engineer of the University of Peradeniya and a Research engineer at the Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies together with Dulani Chamika, a Mechatronics engineer from the same institute.
It was designed and built at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan and is 1000 cubic centimeters in size and weighs 1.1 kg.
RAAVANA-1 was officially handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on February 18, 2019 and will be sent to the International Space Station on April 17, this year through the assistance of Cygnus-1 spacecraft from the United States.
The satellite is expected to fulfill five missions including the capturing of pictures of Sri Lanka and surrounding regions, active attitude stabilization which ensures that satellite’s attitude is stable under the influence of external talks. It is expected to orbit 400 kilometers away from the earth.
==References==
[[Category:Small satellites]]
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