Dr. Unnikrishnan Nair, Director, VSSC visited the facilities of M/s. Bellatrix Aerospace Pvt. Ltd., incubated inside IISc Bangalore. He witnessed the electric propulsion based thruster firing trials and green propulsion testing in high altitude chambers at their facility.

Director, VSSC also visited the facilities of M/s. Digantara, a startup for space surveillance inside IISc Entrepreneurship Centre, Bangalore. Digantara team briefed him about the activities towards establishing a space-based surveillance platform for safeguarding future space operations. He had a discussion with the team on the status of data received from ROBI (ROBust Integrating proton fluence meter) which was flown in the PSLV's Orbital Experimental Platform (POEM) in the PSLV C53 mission on June 30, 2022.