Samudrayaan Mission- Relevance for UPSC Exam
- GS Paper 3: Science and Technology- Achievements of Indians in science & technology; indigenization of technology and developing new technology.
Samudrayaan Mission in News
- Recently, various key informations about Samudrayaan Mission was provided by Minister of State (I/C) for M/o Earth Sciences and M/o Science & Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
What is Samudrayaan Mission?
- About: Samudrayaan is India’s first manned ocean mission launched with an aim to better understand ocean ecology by having niche technology and vehicles to carry out subsea activities.
- Mandate: Samudrayaan Mission aims to humans into the deep sea in a submersible vehicle for deep-ocean exploration and mining of rare minerals.
- Parent Ministry: Samudrayaan Mission is a project of Ministry of Earth Sciences under its Deep Ocean Mission Project.
- Protect Timeline: The projected timeline of Samudrayaan Mission is five years for the period 2020-2021 to 2025-2026.
- Parent Mission: Samudrayaan Mission is being implemented as a part of the Rs 6000-crores Deep Ocean Mission.
- National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an autonomous institute under MoES, is entrusted with the responsibility to develop various technologies related to the Samudrayaan Mission.
- Development of Technology: National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) has developed 6000m depth rated Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and various other underwater instruments for the exploration of deep sea, such as-
- Autonomous Coring System (ACS),
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) and
- Deep Sea Mining System (DSM)
- Significance: The manned submersible will allow scientific personnel to observe and understand unexplored deep sea areas by direct interventions.
- Further, it will enhance the capability for deep sea man rated vehicle development.
MATSYA 6000- Technology Development under Samudrayaan Mission
- Submersible Vehicle: Samudrayaan Mission aims to develop a self-propelled manned submersible to carry 3 human beings to a water depth of 6000 meters in the ocean with a suite of scientific sensors and tools for deep ocean exploration.
- It has an endurance of 12 hours of operational period and 96 hours in case of emergency.
- MATSYA 6000: It is an indigenously developed manned submersible vehicle that will send three persons to a depth of 6000 metres into the sea for deep underwater studies.
- Significance: It will help in conducting deep sea exploration of various valuable resources such as-
- Gas hydrates,
- Polymetallic manganese nodules,
- Hydro-thermal sulfides, and
- Cobalt crusts
India Ocean Mission in 2023
India Ocean Mission in 2023
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