The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) capacity-building programme on nanosatellite development, UNNATI, was inaugurated here on Thursday.
Launched to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations conference on the exploration and peaceful uses of outer space (UNISPACE 50), the programme aims to provide opportunities to the participating developing countries to become stronger in assembling, integrating and testing nanosatellites, said a release.
The UNNATI programme will be conducted for three years by the U.R. Rao Satellite Centre of ISRO in three batches. It will benefit officials of 45 countries. The first batch, which started on January 17, has 30 delegates from 17 countries participating.
Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region and Atomic Energy and Space, said space technology has been provided with greater budgetary allocations and was being utilised in development of roads, railway and disaster management. Space technology has entered every household in the country. Given this, space security will be a top priority of the government, he said.
