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India to teach satellite tech to students from abroad
Why it is in news?
- India has thrown open its satellite-building expertise to engineering graduates chosen from other countries.
- Starting this year, and for three years, a total of 90 qualifying engineers from various countries will be taught to build and test three small satellites each year.
- They will be hosted in Bengaluru for two months each year and work in three annual batches of 30.
- India is also ready to launch the small satellites built during the programme if they are good.
- It is called the Indo-UN Small Satellites Programme (UNSSP).
- In the last 40-odd years, ISRO’s U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) (known as ISAC earlier) has developed over 100 Indian satellites for various purposes in its facilities.
- The capacity-building programme is India’s contribution to the world in response to a request that the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs had made to space-faring nations last year.
UNISPACE+50
- The countries are marking the 50th year of the first UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space — called UNISPACE+50, organised by UNOOSA.
- Three such conferences held earlier recognised the potential of space and laid the guidelines for human activities and international cooperation related to outer space. They were:
- UNISPACE I, Vienna, 1968
- UNISPACE II, Vienna, 1982 and
- UNISPACE III, Vienna, 1999
Source
The Hindu