ISRO Hobbled By Poor Indigenous Electronics

India Spares Slowing ISRO’s Space Missions
Express News Service

The quality of home-grown electronic components, which are integrated to satellites and launch vehicles, is very poor and hence is hampering the process of indigenisation of the Indian Space programme, said Dr D Narayanamoorthy, senior scientist at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

He was delivering the National Technology Day lecture on Indian Space Endeavour on Tuesday. He said that while the percentage of indigenous components in the launch vehicles was very high, the percentage of indigenous components integrated into spacecrafts was about 50 per cent. This, he said, was despite the very poor quality of home-grown electronic components.

He added that in order to encourage young scientists, ISRO was conducting a three month Induction Training Programme that will train around 150 students of various universities.

He said the enthusiasm of students to take a career in space was very high as they had already developed small satellites.

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