{"id":169281,"date":"2025-01-25T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=169281"},"modified":"2025-01-25T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T08:34:14","slug":"shakthisat-mission-empowering-12000-girls-in-space-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/shakthisat-mission-empowering-12000-girls-in-space-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"ShakthiSAT Mission: Empowering 12,000 Girls in Space Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aerospace startup Space Kidz India has launched the ShakthiSAT mission, aiming to train 12,000 girls aged 14-18 from 108 countries in space technology, targeting a satellite launch under ISRO\u2019s Chandrayaan-4 mission in 2026. A prototype presentation will be made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year or early next year. This initiative not only emphasizes skill development in the realm of space but also seeks to inspire and empower young women globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Training Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The ShakthiSAT mission includes&nbsp;<strong>120 hours of online training<\/strong>&nbsp;focused on various aspects of space technology, payload development, and spacecraft systems. Following this,&nbsp;<strong>108 students<\/strong>\u2014one from each participating country\u2014will be selected for hands-on training in India between June and August next year. This effort aims to nurture talent and foster international collaboration, igniting interest in space science among young girls worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerospace startup Space Kidz India has launched the ShakthiSAT mission, aiming to train 12,000 girls aged 14-18 from 108 countries in space technology, targeting a satellite launch under ISRO\u2019s Chandrayaan-4 mission in 2026. A prototype presentation will be made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year or early next year. This initiative not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":169288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5244],"tags":[68],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-169281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2024","tag-science-technology-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169289,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169281\/revisions\/169289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169281"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=169281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}