IIPM Bangalore students visit ISRO
The students of IIPM Banglore visited to India's national space agency- the Indian Space Research Organisation. Its mandate is the development of technologies related to space and their application to India's development.
THE INDIAN Space Research Organisation (ISRO), set up 35 years ago, may be a baby among the world's space faring nations. But, it is competing with the other biggies to set world records.
ISRO is India's national space agency. With its headquarters in Bangalore, its mandate is the development of technologies related to space and their application to India's development. And that was exactly the feeling that all the students who visited the organisation on June 12, 2008, left the campus with.
The only difficult part about this visit was to get the entry passes to get into the campus because it required quite some time, a little patience and a lot of security checks.
Once inside, it was smooth sailing. The ISAC team was very helpful. First the students were shown a 30 minute video describing the journey, the trials, travails and achievements of ISRO till date and their future projects.
Later, the students were addressed by Arunachalam, a senior aeronautical engineer and now a consultant engineer with ISRO. He also clarified their doubts with a lot of patience. Later Arunachalam and Subramaniam, (the other guide from ISAC), took the students around the exhibits of all the satellites from Aryabhatta till the Insat 2C series, showed the clean rooms, the testing systems etc, also the students got a sneak peek of Chandrayaan, India’s mission to the moon.
Once inside, it was smooth sailing. The ISAC team was very helpful. First the students were shown a 30 minute video describing the journey, the trials, travails and achievements of ISRO till date and their future projects.
Later, the students were addressed by Arunachalam, a senior aeronautical engineer and now a consultant engineer with ISRO. He also clarified their doubts with a lot of patience. Later Arunachalam and Subramaniam, (the other guide from ISAC), took the students around the exhibits of all the satellites from Aryabhatta till the Insat 2C series, showed the clean rooms, the testing systems etc, also the students got a sneak peek of Chandrayaan, India’s mission to the moon.
At the end, it was a visit that taught the students a little bit about science, but a lot more about grit, determination, patience and will power of all the people working with ISRO, the results of whose efforts is reaped by all Indians, be it a fisherman in Nagapattinam, a patient who uses telemedicine or a farmer who makes use of the village resource centers, thus accomplishing its mandate to develop and apply technology related to space for India’s development.
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