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Sourabh Kaushal & Nishant Arora

Sourabh Kaushal (L) & Nishant Arora (R)

 













I am Nishant Arora. I am a resident of Yamunanagar, HARYANA. I was born in Jagadhri, Haryana on 19-Feb-1990. My father’s name is Mr. Gulshan Arora. He is an Indian Railways employee. My mother’s name is Mrs. Jaishree Arora. She is a housewife. I started my schooling from a small school named S.D. Public School, Jagadhri Workshop. I studied there till K.G. class. Then I joined “Maharishi Vidya Mandir”, Jagadhri. It is a better and a reputed school in our city. After fifth class I joined “Swami Vivekanand Public School”, Jagadhri. The main reason behind the changing of my school was that we shifted our residence from Jagadhri Workshop to Sector-17, Jagadhri. So this school was on a walking distance from my home. Moreover, this school was much better than the earlier school.

     I was a brilliant student in my childhood. I used to score above or near about 90% till eighth standard. I lost my consistency of marks in ninth standard. But, then I regained my confidence and scored 75% in tenth CBSE board exams. No doubt, 75% marks are not the marks of a brilliant student, but it is a respectable score. After that in eleventh standard I chose non-medical stream and thought that it will be quiet easy to pass out twelfth standard with good score. But, I was wrong. I found it quiet difficult to study science subjects. But, after sometime I started to find it interesting. I slide from nineties in childhood to 73% in twelfth CBSE board.

       I am not a student, who likes theory, studying books all the time. I believe in practical application of theory. I am not a student who wants to score highest marks in the class and remain busy in my studies all the time. I believe in scoring respectable marks and side by side doing some work which is innovative.

      After twelfth CBSE board exams I joined “Institute of Science and Technology”, Yamunanagar which is affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. I joined the four year course of B.tech(Bachelors of Technology) in Electronics and Communication stream.

          As far as concerned about my interest in Space Science, from child hood I was quite interested in this field. I used to watch programs related to Space Science on T.V.

In second semester of B.tech, I and my classmate Mr. Sourabh Kaushal came to know about the problem of Space Debris.

I am Sourabh Kaushal. I am a resident of Yamunanagar, Haryana. I was born in Jagadhri, Haryana on 26-July-1990. I spent my childhood in a small village at Kala Amb, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh. I did my schooling from “Blue Bells School” at Naraingarh, Haryana which was 10km away from my home. My father’s name is Mr. Ramesh Kaushal. He is an employee in a steel industry. My mother’s name is Mrs. Asha Kaushal. She is a housewife. Due to some financial circumstances we had to shift our residence from Kala Amb to Jagadhri. Main reason for shifting of our residence was the loss of job of my father. He got another job in another steel industry at Jagadhri. I joined S.D. Public School, Jagadhri from eighth standard. I was a normal intelligent student in my class. I scored 75% marks tenth CBSE board exams. I chose non-medical stream in eleventh standard. I was chosen as Head Boy of my school. I was not happy with my marks in twelfth CBSE board exams. I scored only 68% marks in the exams. Then I joined “Institute of Science and Technology”, Yamunanagar which is affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. I joined four year course of B.tech(Bachelors of Technology) in Electronics and Communication stream. I stood first in my class in first semester examination of my class.

      As far as interest in space science is concerned, I was really inspired by Dr. Kalpana Chawla who was from our neighbor city Karnal. I was really interested in the topic of space orbital colonies i.e. human life in space. I and my classmate Nishant Arora had a discussion about the topic of space debris.  




   We found the topic of Space Debris quite interesting and started to access its history and recent growth. Then we came to know about the “Jerome Pearson Award” by “International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), USA”. They called for papers which suggest new mitigation methods of Space Debris. We took an initiative to research about it and propose some new methods. We spent nights and days researching about this topic. We proposed some new methods to mitigate Space Debris. We submitted abstract of our paper titled “Space Debris, and its Mitigation” for the first round. Our abstract was selected in the first round. We were quite satisfied to get our abstract selected in an international level competition. We submitted our full paper after the selection of abstract. We were hoping for the best in the competition. When we got the result of “Jerome Pearson Award 2010”, we were not able to believe that our paper stood “Runner-up” in the competition. It was a moment of pride for us, our parents and our institute. This was just a start of our journey. This achievement boosted up our morale and confidence to a great extent. After this achievement, our paper titled “Space Elevator: Dilemma and Remedies” was selected for presentation in “Space Elevator Conference 2010” which was held at “Microsoft Conference Centre, Redmond, Washington, USA”. We presented our paper in the conference and we were quite happy to know that great scientists like Dr. Jerome Pearson and Dr. Yuri Artsutanov were also present there in the conference. Then we presented another paper on Space Elevator in “Euorospaceward Conference 2010” which was held at Luxembourg, Europe. After this achievement our paper titled “Space Debris: A Growing Issue” got selected for presentation in “ISTS 2011” which was held at Okinawa, Japan. We laid stress on using of nanotechnology in mitigation of Space Debris. We also proposed to use Space Debris to create energy. We are presently working with an official team of “Google Lunar X Prize” which is a great platform for us to show our talent. Moreover, the team’s name is “Team Indus” which is only team from India in the competition. So we want to work hard for Team Indus to show India’s potential to the world. We received Dr. Kalpana Chawla Young Scientist Award for our innovative research work on Space Debris Mitigation.

Our research paper got selected for IEEE ESTEL Conference 2012(ITALY), COSPAR Scientific Assemby (Mysore), invited as Guest Speaker at EUSPEC, GERMANY.

        Recently, we have founded a group named “Space Techos” whose aim is to spread more and more awareness about space science in common people. We invite each and every person interested in space science to our group. We want to show the hidden talents in our society to the world. This journey from general B.tech students to Space Techos is quite interesting and rememberable and this journey will never end till our last breath.