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‘DRDO project has crossed concept phase’

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HONOUR: V.K. Saraswat, Chief Controller R&D (Missiles and Strategic Systems) DRDO, flanked by S.C. Tripathi, chairman, Board of Governors, NIT-C (left) and G.R.C. Reddy, Director, NIT-C, at the third convocation of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, at Chathamangalam in Kozhikode on Friday.

KOZHIKODE: V.K. Saraswat, Chief Controller, Research and Development (Missiles and Strategic Systems), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), said here on Friday that the DRDO’s research to have reduction of cost per kilogram of payload on space vehicles had crossed the concept phase.

Delivering the convocation address and later talking to reporters at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) at Chathamangalam, near here,

Dr. Saraswat said the main challenge was the reduction of cost per kilogram of payload on space vehicles from $20,000 to $200 per kilogram. This could be achieved in many ways.

One way was to have single stage to orbit (SSTO) vehicles that are reusable and use atmospheric oxygen by liquefaction during flight. The vehicles can take off with scram jet engines, carry only liquid hydrogen, collect and use oxygen during the flight and return back after the mission. Space solar energy power was the next possible energy solution being tried out by many countries.

The system involves deploying satellites with large solar panels in space, transmit power through microwaves to the ground and reception at ground with receiver antennae.

The space solar power would be available continuously as the system can be located at places to get exposure throughout and was not affected by day\night cycles.

A total of 589 students were conferred degrees varying from B.Tech to PhD at the third convocation of the NIT-C Director G.R.C. Reddy said the NIT-C witnessed a 50 per cent increase in the number of corporates visiting the campus for recruitment.

The Institute has also received a total of Rs. 155 lakh during the last one year for new Research and Development (R&D) projects from various funding agencies, he said.

S.C. Tripathy, chairman, Board of Governors, NIT-C said that with the passing of National Institute of Technology (NIT) Act 2006, the institute will be able to develop its own method of development with funding directly from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).

The Bosch Medal and Certificate for best project in Electronics Engineering was awarded to a project on “Hardware implementation of multiuser detector for wireless asynchronous CDMA communication systems,’ to Anish P.P, Anver Hisham U.S, Jishnu A.J, Nitin Babu K.M and A.Prasad.

The award for the best student in computer science went to Aju T. Scaria of B.Tech Computer science and engineering and best student project on software on `Autonomous ground vehicle’ to team members Abid E.H., Bibin Mathews, Rohan George, Feroz M.Basheer and Raj Paul, both instituted by Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

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