Vaayusastra Aerospace

Indian Edtech company

Vaayusastra AerospaceCompany type| Private

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Industry| Aeronautics and Aerospace Education
Founded| 2018; 7 years ago (2018)
Founders|

* Jagadeesh Kanna
* Gobi Krishna

Headquarters| Chennai, India
Services| Educational Technology, Aerospace engineering
Website| vaayusastra.com

Vaayusastra Aerospace is an educational firm combining theatre and aeronautics, with the goal of taking aeronautical knowledge to every village in India. Vaayusastra Aerospace is incubated and funded under IIT Madras's Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI). Vaayusastra publish a fortnightly column that combines storytelling with aeronautical science in The Hindu Young World Magazine.[1][2] Vaayusastra creates theatre and hands-on activity based educational curriculum for school and college students in the field of Aeronautics and Aerospace. The company is headquartered in Chennai.[3] Its services help up to 100,000 customers from 2018.[clarification needed]

The Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council of the National Skill Development Corporation India identified Vaayusastra as the best training partner in 2022, and it was recognised as the space tutor of ISRO.[4] and Vaayusastra was featured in a Tamil hybrid web series titled Theervai Nokki for their works and featured several times in IIT Madras Incubation Cell articles related to aeronautics and education.[5]

## History

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Vaayusastra Aerospace was founded by Jagadeesh Kanna and Gobi Krishna in 2018[6][7][8] Initially in 2018, the company started with hands-on education-based services to school children.[9][10][11][12] In the 2020 pandemic period, Vaayusastra started online programs for children and reached 8 countries;[6] later, in second wave of pandemic in 2021, they started to conduct extensive programs for college students which focused on various aerospace research areas in aerostats, aerodynes, space suit,[13] cube satellites[14][15] and rocket control systems. Then got an opportunity from the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation's (TNSDC) Naan Mudhalvan project and became a Drone training partner for Government of Tamil Nadu initiative TNSDC Naan Mudhalvan Program to train 3600 Engineering college students.[16]

## References

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1. ^ "Great Companies". 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
2. ^ "Take to the skies". The Hindu. thehindu.com. 8 February 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
3. ^ "Aerospace explained through theatre, arts". DT Next. 2018. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2018.
4. ^ Kandavel, Sangeetha (7 December 2022). "Chennai based Vaayusastra Aerospace accorded status of registered Space Tutor of ISRO". The Hindu. thehindu.com. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
5. ^ "IIT Madras Innovatio". linkedin.com. 19 January 2022.
6. ^ a b "This K'wood actor teaches aeronautics through epics to kids during lockdown". The Times of India. 2020. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
7. ^ "Science to show jumping, kids have loads of options this summer". DT Next. 2020. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
8. ^ "Actor leverages theatre as educational tool". 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.[dead link]
9. ^ "Big Idea - Plane Tales". 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
10. ^ "அறிவியல் விளக்கம் சொல்லும் அலாவுதீன் பூதம்!". 2018. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
11. ^ "'நாடகங்கள் மூலம் குழந்தைகளுக்கான விண்வெளி படிப்பு!'- சென்னை இளைஞரின் புது முயற்சி". 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
12. ^ "Start-up in Chennai simplifies aeronautics". 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
13. ^ Rawal, Srishti; Madhubalan, Aswini; Manikandan, Puviyarasu; Kanna, Jagadeesh (2022). "Study on the Design of Space Gloves and EVA Suits with Future Challenges". Textile & Leather Review. 5. tlr-journal.com: 18–30\. doi:10.31881/TLR.2021.25. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
14. ^ "Dindigul Campus Connect Cube satellite workshop". The Hindu. thehindu.com. 8 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
15. ^ "Kalasalingam varsity holds seminar on small satellites for rural applications". afternoonnews.in. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
16. ^ Kandavel, Sangeetha (21 July 2023). "Students under 'Naan Mudhalvan' scheme will now get to learn about drones and AI". The Hindu. thehindu.com. Retrieved 22 July 2023.