Published: 04:43 PM, 10 September 2026
Dr. Shahnewaz Leads Bangladesh Team at APSCO CubeSat Camp
Bangladeshi researcher Dr. Shahnewaz Siddique, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NSU, led a research team at the APSCO CubeSat Competition (ACC) Summer Camp in Xi’an, China, from August 12-25, 2026. The camp, organized under the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), provided hands-on training in key CubeSat subsystems, including onboard computing, control, communications, power, structural integration, thermal management and ground-station interfacing. The training was held at Northwestern Polytechnical University, a leading Chinese university.
Dr. Shahnewaz’s team qualified through a rigorous selection process coordinated by the Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO), Bangladesh’s focal agency for APSCO. Following SPARRSO’s call for participation, the team submitted detailed CubeSat designs that were evaluated and approved by an APSCO expert panel. The team will now move to the next phase: building, testing and validating the engineering model of the proposed CubeSat, marking a significant step toward advancing CubeSat and space-technology research in Bangladesh.
