Udupi, Jun 7: Niranjan Chiplunkar, principal of the Udupi-based NMAM Institute of Technology (NMAMIT) and Parameswaran, Director, Industry Institute Interaction, NMAMIT, visited Israel, under the Indo-Israel Space Tech Leadership Programme, organised by the Indian Technical Congress Association (ITCA) between May 26 and May 30.
A press release issued by NMAMIT here on Thursday said that there were 20 members in the visiting team, from different technical Institutes of India. Indian Technical Congress Association president Murali Krishna Reddy accompanied the team.
The team visited Nano-satellite Centre of Tel Aviv University, Herziliya Science Centre, Israel Space Agency and Image Sat International and Agriculture Research Organisation at Volcani Centre. The purpose of the visit was to get first-hand information about the Student Satellite programme of Israel.
Indian Technical Congress Association is coordinating design, development and launch of 75 satellites to be developed by students of engineering institutes in India by 2022, which is the 75th year of Indian Independence.
NMAMIT is participating in this programme. The visit helped the team to get a broad picture of a similar programme in Israel, the release said.
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