Srinivas Durvasula

Experience

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  Indian Technology Congress Association

  Apr 2018 - now

  Program Manager

  https://75satellites.org/https://www.itca.org.in/ITCA’s 75 Students' Satellites Mission aims at aligning India's academia to the cutting edge of space technological innovations by designing, developing and launching student-built satellites. The Mission aims to have students from various universities /institutions build and launch small satellites (SmallSats) into low earth orbit (LEO). The aspirational and ambitious Mission 2022, which aims to launch 75 student-built satellites into orbit, has been well structured within a participatory ecosystem building on the combined domain expertise of competent and experienced Indian Space Engineers working in collaboration with leading global SpaceTech organizations. The envisioned SmallSats are primarily CubeSats of 1U, 2U, 3U, and other configurations built with cutting-edge technology. Such SmallSats performance is comparable to larger ones based on earmarked payloads and applications. Furthermore, CubeSats with these configurations would use and have access to an extensive range of widely accessible COTS components as well as a variety of launching possibilities.Among the many mission objectives, the greater emphasis is on academia focusing on science-based education and experience-based learning, to foster an innovation culture in the country and train the future workforce in the ever-expanding space arena and allied sectors. The mission's purpose is to educate students on how to design, develop, manufacture, integrate, test, launch, and monitor SmallSats.ITCA has mentored and incubated a start-up, ISPACEI Satellite and Research Private Limited since February 2022.Multiple Roles: August 2023 till date: Program Director, ISPACEI Satellite and Research Private LimitedFebruary 2022-till date: Program Manager, ITCAApril 2018- March 2022: Project Manager Show less