Ahmedabad: It was not just a soft landing but also a smooth landing, said Ahmedabad's based ISRO's Space Application Center (SAC) director Nilesh Desai on landing on the Southern pole of the moon that is being celebrated across the country. Sharing the details on SAC Ahmedabad's contribution to the mission, Desai said SAC Ahmedabad had made a total of 11 systems for Chandrayaan 3 including 8 camera systems. Desai said - 'We verified the data, and all is functioning perfectly well, so I...Read More

Ahmedabad: For the first time in the country, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully demonstrated free-space Quantum Communication over a distance of 300 m. A number of key technologies were developed indigenously to accomplish this major feat, which included the use of indigenously developed NAVIC receiver for time synchronization between the transmitter and receiver modules, and gimbal mechanism systems instead of bulky large-aperture telescopes for optical alignment. The ...Read More

Ahmedabad: A fire broke out in the store room of the Space Application Center of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) here today. The fire damaged some of the contingency and utility items kept in the store and also part of the two storied store building but no casualty has been reported 6 fire tending vehicles somehow doused it in around 3 hours. It was reported around 1245 hrs and doused by 1550hrs. The SAC administration and FSL were also probe the incident. The ...Read More

Ahmedabad: Brigade call was declared by Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services for the incident of fire in Space Application Centre(SAC) of Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO). Over 25 fire vehicles are on task to control the fire. Ambulances from '108' emergency services and nearby private hospitals are called to the campus. Chief Fire Officer, Additional Chief Fire Officer, District Collector are inside the campus to supervise and guide the fire control efforts. Smoke of fire is ...Read More

Anand: Amul, Anand and ISRO, Ahmedabad together took a forward step for the benefit of dairy farmers by signing a Memorandum of Understanding for “Fodder acreage assessment using satellite observation and space technology”. The main objective of this MOU is identification/discrimination between food crops & fodder crops at village level and identifying suitable areas of current fallows & cultivable wastelands at village level for green fodder cultivation. This is for first time in the Ind...Read More

Ahmedabad: Indian Navy and Space Application Centre (SAC) of Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) today in Ahmedabad signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding on Data Sharing and Scientific cooperation in the field of Meteorology and Oceanology’. The broad areas of cooperation include, sharing of non-confidential observational data for pre-launch sensor calibration and post launch satellite data validation, operational use of SAC generated weather products, provisioning expertise for ins...Read More

Ahmedabad: Union Science and Technology minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today visited Space Application Centre of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in Ahmedabad.  Harsh Vardhan visited three different laboratories of SAC; -Remote Sensing Integration Lab, Communication Integration Lab  and Data Product Lab and interacted with scientists. The Space Application Centre  works for development of space/air borne instruments/payloads and their applications for national development & societal...Read More