K Sivan has come a long way, from being born in a farmer family to heading ISRO, India's premier space research organisation. But setback to Chandrayaan-2 upset him. After all, he and hundreads of other scientists were working tirelessly to make India, the first country to carry out a soft landing on the moon. Know more about India's very own Rocket Man
"We're confident about the soft landing. We're waiting for tonight,"Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K Sivan said.
Today, opportunities are many and people are thinking that India is poor. And why space technology is required for a poor country like India? Do you think India is poor?
He said Cartosat-3 will be launched using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket.
According to ISRO, the control centre would facilitate the intensified activities foreseen for SSAM, in view of the increasing debris population and operational space assets. The control centre would host a range of activities pertaining to the protection of Indian space assets from inactive satellites, pieces of orbiting objects, near-earth asteroids and adverse space weather conditions.
The indigenous human spaceflight programme will carry three member crew for minimum seven days into space.
The total allocation for the Department of Space for the next fiscal in the union budget for 2018-19 is Rs 10,783 crore - up from Rs 9,155.52 crore allocated for the 2017-18 net of recoveries and receipts.
Currently the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Thiruvananthapuram, Sivan will succeed A.S. Kiran Kumar and have a three year term as the ISRO chief.
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