Swayam was a 1 kg CubeSat from the College of Engineering, Pune, that relayed messages for amateur radio users. PSLV-C34 launched it in June 2016, and it re-entered in 2023.
Re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 17 August 2023, according to the public satellite catalogue.
Swayam was built to give point-to-point messaging to the amateur (ham) radio community. It could receive a message, store it and send it on later over another part of the world.
Swayam is a 1U CubeSat weighing about 1 kg. Students at the College of Engineering, Pune, began the project in late 2008. Instead of power-hungry magnetic torquers, it kept steady with a magnet and a pair of hysteresis rods; this passive attitude control was the first of its kind in India. Its solar cells make about 2 W.
PSLV-C34 launched it from Sriharikota in June 2016, alongside Cartosat-2C, Sathyabama University's SathyabamaSat and seventeen other satellites.
Swayam re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 17 August 2023, according to the public satellite catalogue.