India to triple satellites its three years: ISRO chairman

Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman V.Narayanan mentioned India will enhance the quantity of satellites in orbit three instances from the current 56 in three years.

Speaking on the twenty first convocation of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, he mentioned “By 2040, India will match all developed countries in terms of all capabilities of the space programme. In 1963, a tiny rocket was donated by the USA and we launched it. That was the beginning of the Indian space programme. Last week, we launched the NISAR satellite, the costliest satellite ever built in the world. It was placed in orbit precisely by an Indian launcher,” he mentioned.

“In another couple of months, we are going to launch a 6500 kg communication satellite built by the U.S.A. using our own launcher. A country which did not have satellite technology 50 years back, we have launched 433 satellites from 34 countries using our launch vehicle,” he mentioned.

Maharashtra Governor C.P.Radhakrishnan harassed the necessity for contribution in know-how innovation by graduates from the nation by studying one other international language apart from English, together with French and German. “We cannot manage with English in Germany. We cannot manage with English in France. Learning a language will give you a lot of advantages.”

SRM Institute of Science and Technology Founder Chancellor T.R.Paarivendhar presided over the convocation. M.Ravichandran, Secretary, Union Ministry of Earth Sciences, mentioned India will put in place an earthquake early warning system in 2047. He harassed the necessity for contribution from engineering graduates to discover new horizons in facets equivalent to climate administration and take measures to enhance the ocean’s contribution to GDP from 4%, doubling the contribution to delivery, vitality from the ocean, meals from the ocean, water from the ocean, well being from the ocean and local weather change mitigation in a sustainable method.