Emphasising on collaborative work with other space organisations across the globe, Surendra Pal, Deputy Director, Digital and Communication Area, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru, said on Wednesday that data and resources provided by NASA were instrumental in the success of Chandrayaan missions.
Dr. Pal, who is also the Programme Director of Satellite Navigation Programme at the ISRO Satellite Centre, dwelt on the importance of visiting the resource-rich southern pole of the moon, saying the location is believed to contain vast amounts of water, Helium-3 Aneutronic Fusion Energy, a clean fuel, and considerable amounts of radioactive elements and rare earth materials, which can help prevent the problems that plague earth.
Dr. Pal who was here to inaugurate the 52nd edition of the Electronics and Communications Engineering Association, NIT-Tiruchi, spoke about the time-line of various ventures that happened across the globe in the past, including the lunar probe sent by Russia and the Apollo missions, in his technical lecture that revolved around humanity’s fascination with the moon and the Chandrayaan missions. India was well ahead in space technology, he said, elaborating on the technical details of the Chandrayaan missions.
NIT-T Director Mini Shaji Thomas, who presided over, said the ECE department was making its presence felt right from local to global level.
Department Head G. Lakshminarayanan and S. Raghavan, Professor, spoke about the foreign university collaborations and faculty-student exchange programmes initiated over the years.
