Kasturirangan, renowned for spearheading education reforms outlined in the National Education Policy (NEP), also held prominent roles as the chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and chairman of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission
Kasturirangan was also the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, from April 2004 to 2009. Pic/PTI
Former ISRO chief and chairperson of the drafting committee behind the ambitious new National Education Policy (NEP), K Kasturirangan, passed away in Bengaluru on Friday, officials said.
K Kasturirangan was 84 years old.
"He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI) for paying last respects on April 27," the officials said, reported PTI.
Kasturirangan, renowned for spearheading education reforms outlined in the National Education Policy (NEP), also held prominent roles as the chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University and chairman of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission.
Kasturirangan had also served as a member of the Rajya Sabha (2003-09) and as a member of the Planning Commission of India, reported PTI.
Kasturirangan was also the Director of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, from April 2004 to 2009.
ISRO achieves docking of SpaDeX satellites for second time
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully performed the second docking of satellites as part of its Spadex missions, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. He said more experiments are planned in the next two weeks. "Glad to inform that the second docking of satellites has been accomplished successfully," Singh, the minister of state for science and technology, atomic energy and space, said in a post on 'X'.
He recalled that the PSLV-C60/Space Docking Experiment (SPADEX) mission was launched on December 30, 2024. Thereafter, satellites were successfully docked for the first time on January 16 and successfully undocked on March 13, the minister said.
"Further experiments are planned in the next two weeks," Singh added. Later, in a statement, ISRO said the docking experiment of the SPADEX satellites (SDX-01 and SDX-02) for the second time was successfully carried out on April 20 at 08.20 pm. "Subsequently, power transfer from SDX-02 to SDX-01 satellite, as well as vice versa, was also exercised and accomplished on April 21. The experiment involved operating a heater element in one of the satellites through power from the other satellite," it said.
The space agency said the duration of power transfer was approximately four minutes and the performance of the satellites was as expected. "In the second attempt, docking was completed with full autonomy from an inter-satellite distance of 15 metres till docking. In the first docking attempt, an additional hold point was manually exercised at an inter-satellite distance of 3 metres," the statement read.
(With PTI inputs)
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