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DRDO and ISRO working on cutting cost of access to space

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are actively pursuing research on various technologies to bring down the cost of access to space, former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, said here on Monday.
Inaugurating a six-day Space Festival 2012 at Bharathiar University, he said smart designing of the material being used for solar power plant and reducing the weight of the solar panel from 20 kg / KW to less than one kg /KW would aid in bringing down the cost of the space solar power installation to reasonable limits within the near future.
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