The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to set up a 'Space Technology Incubation Center' (S-TIC) at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. This center will enable start-ups to build applications and products that could be used in future space missions, to carry out research and product development in space technology and applications.
NIT Rourkela will provide its state-of-the-art laboratories, facilities and expert faculties to meet these objectives. The upcoming center will promote startups, capacity-building, innovations and research in Space Technology in the States of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand besides the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Congratulating NIT Rourkela on this occasion, Dr K. Sivan, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary Deptt of Space, Govt of India, highlighted that space technology-related research and the products from the S-TIC will be utilised in future Space missions and will help nation-building through ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ in space technology and applications domain.
Students and research scholars will execute real projects given by ISRO of NIT Rourkela taking guidance from expert faculties, mentors from ISRO and relevant industries.
A project book ‘ YUKTI Sanchita 2021’ was also released by Dr Sivan during the occasion. ISRO will provide an annual Grant-in-Aid of Rs 2 crores for a period of up to two years to NIT Rourkela as seed money for setting up the S-TIC. The seed money would be utilized for facility augmentation to carry out the research projects and product development taken from ISRO.
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