THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After hosting the 97th Indian Science Congress, Thiruvananthapuram is set to host global space meet.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hosting the next annual conference of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Co-ordination Committee (IADC) in Thiruvananthapuram from March 9 to 12.
This is the first time that the IADC, a forum of spacefaring nations for handling the threat posed by man-made objects in space,
is meeting in India.
ISRO is one of eleven member agencies, which include NASA and Russia’s Federal Space Agency, in the IADC. One of the important issues that will be discussed in Thiruvananthapuram is a proposal for “active removal of debris from space,’’ said Dr V. Adimurthi of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) who chairs the IADC this year.
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