The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is organizing an Institute Colloquium on January 28, 2023.

The details of the colloquium are given below:

Title:  "Indian Space Program: Recent developments"

Speaker:  Mr.  A.S. Kiran Kumar, Vikram Sarabhai Professor, ISRO, Member, Space Commission and Former Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

About the speaker:  Mr.  A. S. Kiran Kumar is Vikram Sarabhai Professor at ISRO, Bangalore, and a Member of the Space Commission, Govt of India. During 2015-2018, he served as Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. He has steered the implementation of the applications-oriented Indian Space Programme, which has facilitated the rapid development of the country in many important spheres of earth observation, communication, navigation, meteorology, and space science, as well as the development of indigenous launch vehicles and related technologies for providing assured access to space.  He has led the design and development of more than 50 Electro-Optical Imaging Sensors flown on various Spaceborne platforms starting from Bhaskara in 1979. Further, his role in the success of the Chandrayaan-1 mission and the Mars Orbiter Mission has been significant.  

Abstract: India's space program has been a highly successful endeavour. Recently, we have started exploring many new areas and taken up new challenges. The speaker will discuss such recent developments in the program. He will also talk about the cutting-edge fundamental experiments that ISRO had undertaken.