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| President Murmu voices concern over increasing space debris | | |  Agencies
NEW DELHI, Aug 23: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday voiced concern over increasing space debris as a result of numerous satellites being placed in orbit and lauded ISRO for setting itself a target to make future space missions debris free by 2030.
Murmu was speaking at the maiden National Space Day celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the landing of India's Chandrayaan-3 project.
"Space debris can cause problems for space missions," she said during the event at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi that was attended by Union minister Jitendra Singh, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somanath, engineers, ISRO scientists and representatives of the country's nascent space industry.
The president appreciated the ISRO System for Safe and Sustainable Operations Management Facility, which ensures continuous progress of space research activities.
"I am also happy to note that India is moving forward to make all its space missions debris free by 2030," Murmu said.
The president presented awards to winners of the Robotics Challenge and the Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon on the occasion.
During her speech, Murmu made a mention of the research paper on the Chandrayaan-3 data that proved that the Moon was an ocean of molten magma which cooled down later. The findings were made by scientists from Ahmedabad's Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) after studying the data from Chandrayaan-3 and published in the scientific journal Nature.
The president said ISRO had made remarkable achievements in the space sector as well as invaluable contributions to the country's social and economic development.
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