ISRO will also be setting up a module for students from classes 8-10 to be trained at the space agency for a month. India will soon launch a dedicated space and science television channel to make their benefits reach people across the country, a top official said on Sunday.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said, within the next three to four months, there will be a television channel launched to reach even the rural parts of India on how space programme can benefit the common man.
The ISRO Chairman was speaking to media at the space agency's headquarters here on the sidelines of an event where the statue (bust) of the father of India's space programme, Vikram Sarabhai, was unveiled on his 99th birth anniversary.
To be named ISRO TV, the channel will telecast science programmes and highlight the benefits of the space agency's missions in regional languages as well as English, so that it reaches people across the country.
Sivan said, the information on India's space missions and their applications are not reaching the people fully. Our effort through the channel is to make people aware of the benefits of the space programme. The space agency also aims to develop scientific rigour among India's children and youth through this channel. ISRO will also be setting up a module for students from classes 8-10 to be trained at the space agency for a month.
In order to inculcate scientific temper among students, ISRO officials will mentor them for 25-30 days and allow them to visit ISRO's labs and launch facilities.
Sivan said, the students will be allowed to make their own small satellites at the end of the programme. This project, which will be launched soon, has received appreciation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi (who oversees the Department of Space).
Sivan said, the students will be allowed to make their own small satellites at the end of the programme. This project, which will be launched soon, has received appreciation from Prime Minister Narendra Modi (who oversees the Department of Space).
As part of its plan to reach out to the people of the country in a large way, ISRO will also be opening up its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to the public. Indian public will soon be able to pay visits to the launch facility at Sriharikota on the lines of American space agency NASA, the space agency Chief said.
However, the Chairman did not mention a date when the spaceport will be thrown open to the public.
Sivan said, we are also in the process of setting up space galleries and museums across the country.
However, the Chairman did not mention a date when the spaceport will be thrown open to the public.
Sivan said, we are also in the process of setting up space galleries and museums across the country.
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