A PhD student of Assam ’s Tezpur University is working hard as a member of the team behind India’s first solar mission, scheduled to be launched next month by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), reported PTI.
According to the report, Janmejoy Sarkar, an industrious individual driven by his scientific passion, assumed a vital role in the ambitious Aditya L1 mission. Having joined the mission as a Senior Research Fellow at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune two years ago, Sarkar’s dedication to space exploration is resounding. Tezpur University, in an official statement released on August 26th, underscored the integral contribution of Janmejoy Sarkar to the Aditya L1 mission.
The university also talked about an alumnus of Tezpur University, Chayan Dutta, who was also in the Chandrayaan-3 team that made the spacecraft successfully land on the Moon on August 23, scripting history.
Sarkar, who completed his post-graduation from Tezpur University in 2018 and is currently doing PhD at the Department of Physics, is developing IUCAA’s Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) payload on board Aditya-L1, the statement said.
His responsibility has been the optical and mechanical integration, instrument calibration, qualification and testing of the payload. The project is part of his PhD.