Thiruvananthapuram: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday called for the formation of a World Space Council of space faring nations to oversee space exploration and societal applications of space technology.
Kalam was inaugurating a national conference on 'Space Transportation Systems: Opportunities and Challenges' jointly organised by the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Kalam said that pooling of resources by space faring nations will see a quantum jump in space exploration and will transform space exploration into a low-cost affair.
He elaborated on his World Space Vision 2050, an aim of which is to ensure that Earth, Moon and Mars develop into economic centers of humanity. Kalam said that space faring nations should join hands to find solutions to major problems facing mankind such as energy independence, water scarcity, health-care and education issues and accurate prediction of the weather.
Kalam envisioned Moon as an industrial center while human habitats were developed in Mars. Space faring nations should put their heads together to work out how solar energy can be profitably harvested from space and transmitted to earth.
He suggested that nano energy packs, akin to small batteries, can help transfer energy harnessed by space-based solar power plants to earth. Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K Radhalrishnan stressed the need for ensuring high reliability of space transportation systems. Indian National Academy of Engineering president Dr Baldev Raj, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director P S Veeraraghavan, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre director S Ramakrishnan, Indian Space Research organization director T K Alex, Sriharikota Spaceport director M C Dathan spoke.
Kalam was inaugurating a national conference on 'Space Transportation Systems: Opportunities and Challenges' jointly organised by the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Kalam said that pooling of resources by space faring nations will see a quantum jump in space exploration and will transform space exploration into a low-cost affair.
Kalam envisioned Moon as an industrial center while human habitats were developed in Mars. Space faring nations should put their heads together to work out how solar energy can be profitably harvested from space and transmitted to earth.
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