In a significant milestone for India’s space exploration endeavors, ISRO, in collaboration with Hack2skill, organized its first-ever national-level Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon. This 30-hour event, held at the National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad on August 13-14, 2024, drew an overwhelming 3,062 registrations from engineering colleges and universities across the nation, including prestigious institutions like the IITs and NITs.
From this vast pool of participants, only the top 30 teams advanced to the Grand Finale. These teams faced the challenge of solving a critical problem statement: ‘Automatic Detection of Craters & Boulders from an Orbiter High-Resolution Camera using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques.’
The results of the Hackathon were highly anticipated, and it is a matter of great pride for the Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, as its students’ Team Lusine emerged as the Runners-up. The team consisted of final-year B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering students Sambit Mallick, Snigdha Paul, and Chitradeep Saha, along with Aishik Paul, a third-year student from the same department. They were expertly guided by their mentors, Prof. Anindya Sen and Dr. Soumyo Chatterjee.
The top honors of the Hackathon went to a team from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, while the second Runners-up position was secured by a joint team from IIT Roorkee and UR Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.
In a fitting recognition of their achievement, Team Lusine was felicitated by the Honorable President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, on the first-ever National Space Day, celebrated today to mark the grand success of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. The ceremony took place at Bharat Mandapam, adding to the prestige of the occasion.
