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'India can build any type of SLV'
[25 Apr, 2007 l 1107 hrs ISTlIANS]
STRASBOURG: Against a giant backdrop of his presidential website, A P J Abdul Kalam, the aero-science professor turned head of state, told an international class of space students here that India was set to make "important contributions" to the future of exploration with missions to the Moon and Mars.
Addressing a packed lecture hall at the International Space University (ISU) Tuesday evening at the edge of this northeastern French city, famous for being the seat of the European Parliament, Kalam told the students drawn from around the world that space has no borders: âWhen we explore space, (it) can act as a motivator for national collaboration between nations.â
Space is a âplatform for sharing ideas and technologies and to work towards a sustainable world with peace and prosperity,â said Kalam.
Before becoming the President of India in 2002, Kalam was the professor of Technology and Societal Transformation at the Anna University in Chennai.
Kalam, who was introduced to the students as a âpresident and a teacher,â said space science had enabled Indian villages to taste the fruits of connectivity and had been âtouching the lives of many among the billion people of India in several ways.â
âToday, India with her 14,000 scientific, technological and support staff in multiple research centres, supported by about 500 industries and academic institutions, has the capability to build any type of satellite launch vehicle to place remote sensing, communication and meteorology satellites in different orbits. Space application has become part of our daily life,â said Kalam.
âIndia has today a constellation of six remote sensing and 10 communication satellites serving applications like natural resource survey, communication, disaster management support, meteorology, tele-education (10,000 classrooms) and tele-medicine (200 hospitals),â said Kalam.
âOur country is in the process of establishing 100,000 Common Service Centres through a public-private partnership model for providing knowledge input to rural citizens,â Kalam told the students at ISU that has had a long and cooperative relationship with India.
Among the alumni of the university, over one per cent are from India, which ISU president Michael Simpson said âis a pretty large proportion for a school whose graduates come from 93 countries.â
The ISU has in this year's master programme one Indian student and three with Indian roots, mostly from Canada, and one Indian among the staff.
Kalam will address the European Parliament today before leaving for Athens on a four-day state visit to Greece, the first by an Indian head of state in 21 years.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_can_build_any_type_of_SLV_Kalam/articleshow/1953399.cms
[25 Apr, 2007 l 1107 hrs ISTlIANS]
STRASBOURG: Against a giant backdrop of his presidential website, A P J Abdul Kalam, the aero-science professor turned head of state, told an international class of space students here that India was set to make "important contributions" to the future of exploration with missions to the Moon and Mars.
Addressing a packed lecture hall at the International Space University (ISU) Tuesday evening at the edge of this northeastern French city, famous for being the seat of the European Parliament, Kalam told the students drawn from around the world that space has no borders: âWhen we explore space, (it) can act as a motivator for national collaboration between nations.â
Space is a âplatform for sharing ideas and technologies and to work towards a sustainable world with peace and prosperity,â said Kalam.
Before becoming the President of India in 2002, Kalam was the professor of Technology and Societal Transformation at the Anna University in Chennai.
Kalam, who was introduced to the students as a âpresident and a teacher,â said space science had enabled Indian villages to taste the fruits of connectivity and had been âtouching the lives of many among the billion people of India in several ways.â
âToday, India with her 14,000 scientific, technological and support staff in multiple research centres, supported by about 500 industries and academic institutions, has the capability to build any type of satellite launch vehicle to place remote sensing, communication and meteorology satellites in different orbits. Space application has become part of our daily life,â said Kalam.
âIndia has today a constellation of six remote sensing and 10 communication satellites serving applications like natural resource survey, communication, disaster management support, meteorology, tele-education (10,000 classrooms) and tele-medicine (200 hospitals),â said Kalam.
âOur country is in the process of establishing 100,000 Common Service Centres through a public-private partnership model for providing knowledge input to rural citizens,â Kalam told the students at ISU that has had a long and cooperative relationship with India.
Among the alumni of the university, over one per cent are from India, which ISU president Michael Simpson said âis a pretty large proportion for a school whose graduates come from 93 countries.â
The ISU has in this year's master programme one Indian student and three with Indian roots, mostly from Canada, and one Indian among the staff.
Kalam will address the European Parliament today before leaving for Athens on a four-day state visit to Greece, the first by an Indian head of state in 21 years.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India_can_build_any_type_of_SLV_Kalam/articleshow/1953399.cms
