Archive · 14 Nov 2025
CSIR-ISRO Space Meet to Advance India’s Human Spaceflight Research
India's top space organizations, CSIR and ISRO, are holding a special meeting in Bengaluru on November 17.
They are inviting scientists, engineers, and astronauts to come together.
The goal is to share ideas and work more closely on sending humans into space.
They will discuss how to keep astronauts healthy, what materials to use for spaceships, and how life works in space.
They also want to figure out how to grow plants and make food in space.
This meeting will help them plan for future space trips and find new ways to do research together.
It's all about making India even better at exploring space.
CSIR and ISRO will jointly organize a space meet in Bengaluru on November 17.
The event aims to advance cooperation in human spaceflight research, microgravity studies, and space technology.
Around 150-200 delegates, including astronauts and international space agency representatives, are expected to attend.
Discussions will focus on integrating CSIR's research with ISRO's mission needs, covering areas like physiology, materials science, and spacecraft systems.
The meet seeks to chart a collaborative roadmap for future human spaceflight missions and identify joint R&D opportunities.
- Who
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), scientists, technologists, astronauts, and representatives from national and international organizations (DRDO, ISRO, IISc, IAF, ESA, JAXA, CNES).
- What
- A joint space meet to advance cooperation on human spaceflight research, microgravity studies, and space technology innovations.
- When
- Monday, November 17
- Where
- Bengaluru
- Why
- To integrate CSIR's research with ISRO's mission needs, chart a collaborative roadmap for future human spaceflight missions, and identify joint R&D opportunities.
Goals of the Meet
Specific Focus Areas
Inter-agency Cooperation
Goals of the Meet
To advance cooperation on human spaceflight research, microgravity studies, and space technology innovations between CSIR and ISRO.
Specific Focus Areas
To integrate CSIR’s multidisciplinary research with ISRO’s mission-driven technological needs, focusing on areas like human spaceflight physiology and advanced spacecraft systems.
Future Mission Planning
Goals of the Meet
To chart a collaborative roadmap for future human spaceflight missions.
Specific Focus Areas
To identify new avenues for joint R&D in space science and technology, including plant growth in space and development of space food.
- Organizers
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Event
- CSIR-ISRO Space Meet 2025
- Date
- Monday, November 17
- Location
- Bengaluru
- Expected Delegates
- 150 to 200, including scientists, technologists, astronauts, and representatives from national and international organizations (DRDO, ISRO, IISc, IAF, ESA, JAXA, CNES).
- Key Discussion Topics
- Human spaceflight physiology, biomedical instrumentation, materials science, life sciences in microgravity, advanced spacecraft systems, plant growth in space, space food development, microfluidics, ceramic metamaterials, and microbial corrosion prevention.
- Overall Aims
- Strengthen research linkages, foster innovation in space medicine and human factors engineering, build translational technologies, and chart a collaborative roadmap for future human spaceflight missions and R&D.
