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India’s Journey to space in 75 years after independence
IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur
Report on “India’s Journey to space in 75 years after independence”
Name of the Department: Physics
Date: 28/01/2022
Venue: MS Teams (Online Mode)
No. of Participants: 13
Physics Department of IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur organized an activity on “India’s Journey to space in 75 years after independence” for B.Sc.(H) Sem. VI students on 28 Jan. 2022 under Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebration. In this activity students gave a brief about the inception of India’s Space Journey, the research began somewhere in the 1920s. These studies were conducted by the then scientists of India S. K. Mitra, C. V. Raman and Meghnad Saha. Around the 1940s and 50s, the Indian space programme and space activities got nationwide attention. n its 47 years of history, ISRO did breakthrough work in the field of technology and even launched many indigenous vehicles into space! Over the next 47 years, ISRO has improvised and developed technology, launching several indigenously created vehicles into space that form a part of the Indian space journey.
After that they talked about Aryabhatta, 1975: India’s first satellite Rohini Satellite (RS-1), 1980: Got India to enter an exclusive club as it’s as the sixth member of space-faring nations.India’s Space Mission, 1984: Indo-Soviet Manned Mission where Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian Citizen to flew into space Chandrayan, 2008: First lunar mission, launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Mangalyaan, 2014: First interplanetary mission, made ISRO be the 4th space agency to reach Mars.
There were misses as well in the history of ISRO like SLV-3 in 1979, which carried the first experimental satellite to carry Rohini Payloads or something recent in 2017 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C39) during 41st flight, had a successful launch but its heat shield got separated. All these programmes in the space journey of India taught Indian scientists lessons, added value to the scientific discoveries of India when it comes to knowledge about space but also attracted the attention of the agencies around the world of the potential and calibre of Indian scientists and their research possess. The journey of the past 50+ had its ups and downs but India is planning to leave an even more prominent mark on the history of space travels and India’s human space mission in the years to come.
Activity came to end with a vote of thanks and appreciation by students and faculty members.
