A joint administration committee of National Institute of Technology — Tiruchi (NIT-T) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lately reviewed the know-how growth tasks undertaken by Space Technology Incubation Centre (STIC), established on the NITT campus as a part of an ongoing collaboration between the 2 establishments.

According to an official assertion, NIT-T had invested ₹2 crore on eight indigenous know-how growth tasks, of which three, developed by NIT-T affiliate professors S. S. Karthikeyan, R. Pandeeswari, and S. Senthil Kumar, had been handed over to ISRO throughout the joint administration committee assembly held in Tiruchi on August 30.

The assembly was chaired by NIT-T director G. Aghila and Sudheer Kumar, Director, Capacity Building and Public Outreach (CBPO), ISRO.

STIC was established in 2019 by way of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between ISRO and NIT-T, as a part of an initiative to foster analysis and growth between academia, trade and ISRO centres throughout India. The assertion added that the MoU has been prolonged for an additional interval of two years.