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Ex-ISRO scientist flags maths coding AI for space careers
Hindustan Times··2d ago
Former ISRO scientist Gurpreet Singh said students aiming for space careers need strong foundations in mathematics, physics and programming. Singh, now Math Lead at Newton School of Technology, spent over seven years in ISRO's Space Navigation Group on NavIC. His work covered orbit determination, navigation estimation, filtering and time synchronisation. He told Hindustan Times coding and AI matter there.
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What It Means For You
- Students targeting space jobs get a concrete skill checklist: maths, physics, coding and AI.
- NavIC-related roles still need orbit determination and navigation estimation skills Singh described.
- Private space and edtech employers such as Newton School are recruiting from the same talent pool.
What's Happening
- Singh is an IIT Roorkee graduate and former ISRO scientist.
- He said satellites' position and speed are inferred from ground-station signals plus physics models.
- He spoke to HT Digital about lesser-known space career paths beyond rockets and satellites.
What NavIC work involved
- India's space sector is expanding beyond government launch programmes into data and navigation services.
- NavIC is India's regional navigation system Singh helped develop.
- Inter-satellite links and time synchronisation sat inside the same Space Navigation Group portfolio.
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