ISRO organises Bhartiya Antariksh Hackathon for students; here's all you need to know
12 problem statements on Geo-Spatial Applications from centres NRSC, PRL, NESAC, SPL, and SAC.As per ISRO, Teams of 3-4 Indian students from undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD programs are invited to participate for the Hackathon which involves a rigorous two- level screening process.The Indian space agency said in a statement said, “Initially, 100 teams will be shortlisted based on their ideation and relevance to the problem statements. From these, an expert committee will select 30 teams for the grand finale."The grand finale, a 30- hour marathon event, will be held at the NRSC Outreach Facility in Jeedimetla, Hyderabad, starting at 10:00 hrs IST on August 13, 2024.The hackathon event is managed through a dedicated web portal.
Proposals can be submitted through the portal until July 26, 2024. The list of teams advancing to the grand finale will be announced on August 2, 2024.India's first solar mission Aditya-L1 spacecraft completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point on July 2, the ISRO said in a statement.
The Aditya-L1 mission is an Indian solar observatory at Lagrangian point L1, launched on September 2 last year and was inserted in its targeted halo orbit on January 6. Aditya-L1 spacecraft in the Halo orbit takes 178 days to complete a revolution around the L1 point.
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