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V. Narayanan, president of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), connected Saturday described the Artemis II mission of US’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) arsenic “a large effort” and expressed assurance that it volition pb to aboriginal quality landings connected the moon.
“I’m 100% definite that this ngo volition beryllium a expansive success, starring towards aboriginal landings connected the moon,” Dr. Narayanan said of NASA’s archetypal crewed lunar flyby successful 50 years.
Dr. Narayanan was speaking to reporters aft receiving the K.P.P. Nambiar Award 2025 instituted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Kerala section.
Recalling the past quality landings connected the moon, Dr. Narayanan said the Artemis programme was a measurement towards repeating the feat.
In his grant acceptance speech, Dr. Narayanan said ISRO was learning from the duplicate “setbacks” of the Polar outer Launch Vehicle (PSLV) missions and would person everything backmost connected track.
He said that by 2040, the nation’s abstraction activities volition beryllium connected a par with immoderate different state successful presumption of launcher and spacecraft technologies, applications and infrastructure.
“Multiple programmes” were presently underway, including the Gaganyaan programme and the Bharatiya Antariksh Station project. For a state that started its abstraction programme successful the 1960s astatine “LKG level” erstwhile different countries were putting humans into abstraction and the moon, India’s abstraction programme has grown exponentially, helium said. Dr. Narayanan besides underscored the request to summation the fig of outer launches to conscionable the nation’s requirements. Today, much than 400 startups are besides moving successful the abstraction sector, helium pointed out.
He dedicated the K.P.P. Nambiar Award to the gait assemblage of India.
Rajalakshmi Menon, Director General (Aero), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) received IEEE’s Outstanding Woman Engineer Award. IEEE Kerala section bureau bearers B.S. Manoj and Chinmoy Saha besides spoke.
