QIS organises World Space Week fete

Ongole: The QIS College of Engineering & Technology and QIS Institute of Technology in association with the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Indian Space Research Organisation, Sriharikota, organised the World Space Week celebrations in the town on Sunday.

ISRO scientist V Kumbakarnan, Project Director of Second Vehicle Assembly Building, SDSC SHAR, G Ramesh Babu, General Manager of SDSC SHAR, inaugurated the exhibition of satellite models and missions on the campus.

Speaking on the session, Kumbakarnan said, “The ISRO is celebrating World Space Week for the past few years and recently we have decided to involve various institutions in the celebrations. Last year, 15 educational institutions from three states participated in the celebrations while 22 institutions from five states are celebrating the space week this year”.

Kumbakarnan said that as an important space organisation, ISRO was making wonders silently in the country. When AB Vajpayee was the Prime Minister, he wanted to conduct the nuclear test at Pokhran and the USA opposed it and started peeping into India with its satellites. But the ISRO successfully helped in carrying out the nuclear tests.

Elaborating further, he said that during the time of Kargil War, the ISRO used Technology Experiment Satellite (TES), Step and Stare Satellite Imaging System to take pictures of the White House, including the vehicles in the President’s convoy and used the same system to capture the photos of Pakistan military crossing LoC at Kargil. When other countries refused to cooperate with us, we rose to the occasion and developed our own technology, he added.

President of QIS Educational Trust, N Nageswara Rao, Principal of QISCET Dr K Veeraswamy, Principal of QISIT Dr C V Subbarao, QIS R&D director Dr Ch Himabindu and other scientists from ISRO and students also participated in the programme.