Indian student selected for ESA’s programme

LONDON: In a rare distinction, an Indian has been selected to work for the, European Space Agency’s student orbiter mission, which is tasked with designing the overall power supply technology for a moon orbiting satellite. Karan Goyal, a student from Delhi is the only Indian among the team at Warwick University which is working on the design to be launched in 2011.

Goyal, a final year student of M.Sc. computer system engineering, said: “I am keen to return home and work in IT, either in production or quality line. I will definitely go to Europe if I get a chance to work on a space project”. Goyal’s family has a computer business in Delhi.

A spokesman of the university said today that apart from working on designing the overall power supply technology, to all the devices in the Moon Orbiting Satellite, the team is engaged in a very specific supply requirement by Astronautics Research Group. The Group has devised an electrical propulsion thruster that can be used by satellites instead of the conventional chemical rockets.