Union minister Shri Jitendra Singh on March 12 inaugurated the Satish Dhawan Centre for Space Sciences at the Central University of Jammu. It is country’s second of its kind space training institute after Thiruvananthapuram.
- The first course, B.Tech in Aviation and Aeronautics, with an intake capacity of 60 students, will start this year.
- The Centre is named after the renowned Space Scientist Prof. Satish Dhawan, who hailed from Jammu & Kashmir.
- The Centre houses different labs/facilities related to geospatial data analysis, materials, astrophysics, natural disasters and avionics
- In October 2018, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Central University of Jammu to set up the centre with facilities for geo-spatial data analysis that will help in sustainable use of natural resources and plan land-use patterns.
- The centre has ground-based observations for atmospheric studies, research lab for astrophysics, atmospheric sensing and glacier studies laboratory for better use of large quantities of water stored in the form of seasonal snow, ice and glaciers in the rivers of north India.
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