After successfully achieving a soft landing on the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now gearing up for its future robotic space exploration. The Indian space agency is now inviting youth to be part of space exploration.
This remarkable opportunity encourages young individuals to come up with innovative ideas and designs for robotic rovers. Additionally, ISRO plans to host a 'space challenge' in order to identify and select the most outstanding proposals.
“In line with this vision, U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), ISRO, solicits from the youth of India, innovative ideas and designs of robotic rovers for future missions through the conduct of a space robotics challenge with an objective to provide development opportunities in space robotics to the participating entities and to leverage the creative thinking among the youth of our nation for Isro interplanetary missions,” the space agency said in a statement.
The challenge invites an engineering project where college students will be asked to build space robots that could perform tasks in space and handle all the challenges they may meet.
After selecting the teams, they will be invited to the URSC Bengaluru campus in August 2024, where teams will perform the required tasks on the campus.