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Navi Mumbai’s Adeetya Uppal wins National Space Innovation Challenge

Navi Mumbai, Oct 28 (UNI) Adeetya Uppal from Navi Mumbai has been named the winner of the Viasat: Space for Good India Challenge 2026, a flagship STEM innovation competition organized by Viasat Inc. in strategic partnership with the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe).
Shashank Kumar Singh from Lucknow (PhD researcher in Biological Sciences and Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar) and Aryan Gupta from New Delhi (Pre-final year Mechanical Engineering student at IIT Roorkee) were awarded second and third place, respectively, for their innovative concepts.
The competition brings together exceptional university talent from across India to develop innovative solutions that leverage space and satellite technologies to solve meaningful challenges on Earth.
The top three winners will receive cash prizes to help further develop and scale their solutions, said a release.
In addition to being named the overall winner, Adeetya Uppal (Fourth-year Aerospace Engineering Dual Degree (B.Tech M.Tech) student at IIT Kharagpur, originally from Navi Mumbai) will receive Rupees 5,00,000 to further develop the innovation and advance its real-world application.
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