THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A world-class facility,which will help the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plan inter-planetary missions with greater precision, was inaugurated at the ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU) here at Vattiyoorkavu on Friday.
First-of-its-kind in Asia, the Cold Atom Laboratory, inaugurated by ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar who opened the silver jubilee celebrations of IISU, will enable ISRO to develop navigation sensors of very high accuracy. “The measurements done using this can detect the change in gravity with ultra high precision, of the order of one part of a lakh per centimetre. This will enable ISRO to achieve interplanetary missions with more accuracy,” officials said.