On September 26, Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College’s SAKEC ROBO CLUB conducted an interactive session with Mr. PranitPatil (scientist Astronaut candidate of NASA) regarding his experiences in the space exploration, space technology and current guidelines in universal exploration. He has been a part of the high- profile teams which worked on Mars Missions and recently he was involved in the Kepler Mission- NASA’s first mission capable of finding Earth-size planets around other stars. He is currently working on project POSSUM.
The event began with the lightening of the lamp by the vice principal V.C. KOTAK and JAGDISH SARODE sir and welcome speech by a member of SAKEC ROBOCLUB Then Mr. Patil began with the outlet of space and gave a general idea of NASA recent projects and future plans. He then introduced to the students about applications of CubeSats and technologies used in the architecture of launching system. He also shared his valiant experience of tests he passed through before he was clad in suit of astronaut and how he got the license of fighter plane where dealing with acceleration 4G, 0G and even -2G at the height of 330 m from the ground becomes very difficult.
Migrating to our cousin planet MARS has always been a dream of humans. ‘But how cool or hard MARS is! Do we have sufficient water to quench the thirst of all?’ Mr. Patil gave a detailed information and answers to our intimate questions and the practises and attempts of NASA for human sustainable development over MARS. But his recent project to reach Keplar452B (twin planet of earth) was far more fascinating. However, when he informed that ‘keplar452B is 1400 light years away from earth’ – dejected everybody- as it doesn’t seem possible to ever reach there. His recent project, Possum (still in progress) – using of positron in aeronautical science to reach the speed equivalent to light- exhilarated the audience to learn more regarding the mechanism which is soon going to be used. All this information is available because of voyager launched by NASA in 1977 which is still under working condition because of the use of antimatter propulsion which caught the interest of the audience.
Later Mr.Pranit Patil gave the career guidance to the future engineers on getting into space science. He has also busted the myths regarding the same.
Seminar was concluded by Mr. Rinkesh Kurkure member of Imperial Scientific Association -pen Maharashtra gave the overview about Nano technology and material science which caught the student’s attention.
