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65 government departments to use space tech for planning and governance

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The scientists at the India Space Research Organisation (Isro) are working overtime to make space technology available to the use of general public, rather remaining fixated to exploratory missions or commercial satellite launches. The technology is being made available to 65 central government departments for planning and improving delivery and governance structure. The Isro chief Dr K Radhakrishnan told an audience of strategic experts here that besides disaster management and city planning, there are over two dozen remote sensing application centres working in different states to support their requirement in areas like infrastructure development and management of natural resource. A Space Based Information Support for Decentralized Planning (SIS-DP) project has also been initiated to empower the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs).

K Radhakrishnan, who also doubles as secretary in the department of space said a national space law was being drafted to be approved by the parliament in 2015. On defence uses of space, he said India has built a space platform to keep an eye on the entire Indian Ocean region. Stressing in particular on the success of the Mars Orbiter mission, the Isro chief said that the success of the mission is gratifying especially because it has changed the perception of the global space community towards India. India took only four years to launch the mission from its conception and used its ingenuity by moving to right location, using the propulsion of the satellite and also by designing a unique mission in which minimum energy transfer from the Earth orbit to Mars orbit was made possible. The mission was also more significant as the previous international missions undertaken before India had very low success rate.

It was for the first time that Isro was dealing with distances of millions of kilo metres where the space craft had to be navigated very precisely to such a distance, battling the influence of the Sun and other planets. He, however, said India has not made major inroads in Human-in-loop missions and space robotics. India is, however, making a beginning in this field by looking at major technologies in this area. Isro plans to test a flight of GSLV Mark III in December 2014. It is a launch vehicle under development by Isro, intended to launch satellites into geostationary orbit and as a launcher for an Indian crew vehicle.

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