{"id":307984,"date":"2019-01-11T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307984"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:16:49","slug":"bengaluru-isro-chief-k-sivan-talks-about-chandrayaan-2-gaganyaan-and-other-key-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengaluru-isro-chief-k-sivan-talks-about-chandrayaan-2-gaganyaan-and-other-key-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: ISRO Chief K. Sivan talks about Chandrayaan-2, Gaganyaan and other key assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307985 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/k-sivan-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/k-sivan-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/k-sivan-484x420.jpg 484w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/k-sivan.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian space research organisation (ISRO) Chief K. Sivan on Friday addressed media at a Press Meet organized at ISRO Headquarters, Bengaluru where his extensive briefing was followed by specific areas of interaction included Chandrayaan-2 mission, Gaganyaan mission, Reusable Launch Vehicle, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle and other upcoming missions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also highlighted ISRO\u2019s achievements in 2018 and the challenging missions envisaged during this year including the Chandrayaan-2 mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSeveral new technologies such as Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, Reusable Launch Vehicle and in-flight connectivity (with launch of GSAT-20) are planned to be demonstrated this year,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEnhanced industry interface for production of PSLV by industry will be a major milestone and the efforts in this regard are initiated\u201d Dr. K Sivan remarked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr K Sivan while briefing about India\u2019s first manned mission flight, Gaganyaan, said \u201cThe mission will be capable of carrying three Indian astronauts and will orbit the Earth for seven days. It is a major expansion in ISRO\u2019s Programme. A new Centre &#8211; Human Space Flight Centre is formed and will be the lead Centre for the overall management and realization of Gaganyaan\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ISRO chief also briefed about various initiatives being taken up to enhance ISRO\u2019s outreach activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian space research organisation (ISRO) Chief K. Sivan on Friday addressed media at a Press Meet organized at ISRO Headquarters, Bengaluru where his extensive briefing was followed by specific areas of interaction included Chandrayaan-2 mission, Gaganyaan mission, Reusable Launch Vehicle, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle and other upcoming missions. He also highlighted ISRO\u2019s achievements in 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1343,10570,4812,974,10569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307986,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307984\/revisions\/307986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}