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With a beardown telephone for a startup-driven translation of India’s abstraction sector, the Andhra Pradesh Space Tech Summit–2026 was inaugurated astatine Vignan’s University, Vadlamudi successful Guntur territory connected Thursday.
Addressing the gathering, Dr. Prakash Chauhan, Director of the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, said a ‘revolution of startups’ is indispensable to accelerate maturation successful abstraction technology.
The summit, organised jointly by Vignan’s University, the Andhra Pradesh SpaceTech Academy and Ananth Technologies, is being held nether the taxable ‘Leveraging Space Technology for Viksit Bharat–2047’.
Dr. Chauhan noted that India’s abstraction startup ecosystem has grown rapidly, from conscionable a fistful 3 years agone to astir 300 now, pursuing argumentation reforms. He said world observation, connection and navigation satellites would beryllium captious for agriculture, catastrophe management, clime monitoring, transport and integer services.
He highlighted Andhra Pradesh’s strategical vantage with Sriharikota and beardown academia–industry linkages.
Infrastructure and Investments Department Special Chief Secretary M.T. Krishna Babu said the abstraction assemblage offers world-class opportunities for the younker and volition play a cardinal relation successful achieving Viksit Bharat–2047 goals.
Vignan’s president Lavu Rathaiah stressed that nationalist improvement is intolerable without abstraction technology.
During the event, the ‘South India Rocketry Challenge–2026’ was launched and the AP SpaceTech Academy released its archetypal publication, Space Tech Spectrum Journal.
