You become a complete leader when you pass through the stages of being ignored and ridiculed for your new ideas, grudgingly accepted when you prove your point by adding value to your institution and society at large and finally admired for what you built and what you are. All successful institutions have one thing in common: they choose a leader who built some thing new, chosen an untrodden path, building a new one. Leadership determines the backbone of an institution. But with time, the slide picks up momentum, reaching a point of no return. Initially it may be imperceptible, encouraging you to compromise further on this priceless asset. When you start compromising with "sanskar", downhill slide of the institution begins. Highest reliability and success of space technology is enhanced by practising right kind of "sanskar". It is your "sanskar" which prevents you from doing wrong things, prevents you from betraying your mother land, helps you exhibit the rare spine to tell your boss what is right, what is wrong. These two attributes, carried forward from one generation to another, are beautifully defined by Sanskrit word "Sanskar", roughly meaning value system. Success or failures of space agencies are as good as their employees and leaders.Ĭulture and ethics are integral part of any successful organisation or institution. So training, upgradation of knowledge have to be given great emphasis along with work environment. Occasionally they have to be polished to keep their lustre. It is not enough to keep the ornaments in safety. Rather managers should behave as custodians of valuable assets. And it is the solemn duty of managers to treat employees as valuable assets. So most important component of space industry are its people. Reliability of a product is a function of knowledge and skills of people behind it. Just like a child falls and gets up and learns walking upright. But we should not be disheartened with failure, but take it as a learning experience. Usually hardware never fails, but engineers behind it fail.
So when space hardware fails, more often than not, it failed in a failure condition which we could not imagine. It should be well thought of, well debated, tested and simulated for worst and best possible cases of imagination. And you see the importance of gestation period.
Gestation period of human being is 9 months. Please remember, for reproducing a rat, it takes gestation period of 23 days. So the development need not be hurried through. If you cannot imagine a situation of failure, you cannot make a provision to recover from anomalies in future. We should test the space hardware prior to launch, in high vacuum, extreme temperatures it is going to experience. It has to survive harsh vibration tests, similar to the one you experience when the rocket takes of. We should test it in the sequence in which we fly to space. So we have to test it in all possible imaginable conditions. You must be able to imagine all possible behaviours of spacecraft in space, in harsh and unforgiving environment. Once you send machines to space, you cannot access it in person to carry out corrective measures. Complex way of doing things, complex way of explaining or describing things are, more often than not, signs of lesser mortals. Sharper you are, easier for you to explain even the complex subjects in layman's language. I personally believe simplicity in the product is the mark of genius. When you put these attributes together, you get space technology. Technology should be simple to understand, simple to explain, matetial should be easy ro source, easy to manufacture, operate and maintain, and preferably cheap. Similarly simpler the technology, more reliable it is. Our life experience tells, simpler the person, more reliable he is. Near 100 percent reliability is the crying need of space science and technology. But if something wrong happens to spacecraft, rockets - You just have to forget it. If your scooter tyre gets punctured on road, you can bring a mechanic to repair it and get going. But reliability is the essence of space technology. Space Technology may be based on complex scientific knowledge and principles. You are surprised with the title, isn't it? But contrary to popular beliefs, simplicity is the hall Mark of space technology, including "Rocket Science". Quote Space Technology is not "Rocket Science"
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