{"id":798,"date":"2013-11-27T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2013-11-27T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T12:07:33","slug":"isro-iit-kharagpur-might-soon-join-hands-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/isro-iit-kharagpur-might-soon-join-hands-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"After ISRO, IIT Kharagpur might soon join hands with NASA too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/qqqqqqqqqqqqqq.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-799\" title=\"After ISRO, IIT Kharagpur might soon join hands with NASA too\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/qqqqqqqqqqqqqq.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>New Delhi: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/iit-kharagpur\/\">IIT Kharagpur<\/a> has successfully partnered with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) over the last four years on much publicized projects like Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan and Scatterometer which is a radar designed to measure oceanic winds.<br \/>\nNow, two scientists from the premier research agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have visited IIT Kharagpur \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 possibly for a tie-up with the institution.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and ISRO might also partner on a futuristic radar technology mission called NI-SAR, which is yet to receive final clearance from the Indian and the American government.<\/p>\n<p>If NI-SAR proves successful, it will be able to predict natural calamities like earthquakes, tidal wave surge, melting of glaciers and rise in sea level.The high-profile Kalpana Chawla Space Research Centre at IIT Kharagpur is already leading radar-related research which can be successfully used for NI-SAR related research in the future, which is expected to cost about $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan is an IIT-Kharagpur alumnus and this might prove to be of value for IIT KGP collaboration efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This post was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109449750854720186719?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aditya Singhal<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">askIITians.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: IIT Kharagpur has successfully partnered with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) over the last four years on much publicized projects like Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan and Scatterometer which is a radar designed to measure oceanic winds. Now, two scientists from the premier research agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have visited IIT Kharagpur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}