ISRO to support eight joint research projects of IIT-D

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that it will support eight joint research projects mooted by the Space Technology Cell (STC), IIT-Delhi. The ISRO will support the projects under its RESPOND programme with varying duration of 1-3 years.

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The ISRO will support the projects under its RESPOND programme with varying duration of 1-3 years, it added.

The institute said that the Space Technology Cell was set up at IIT, Delhi under an MoU signed between the ISRO and IIT-D in November 2019 with an aim to strengthen the research collaboration between the two organisations and to carry out focused research projects in the space technology domain with specific deliverables.

Since then, eight collaborative research projects have been announced.

Some of the projects include developing a system for drought and flood forecasting and understanding land-atmosphere interactions.