{"id":528171,"date":"2022-10-10T12:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=528171"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T06:53:41","slug":"mits-daksha-drone-gets-dgca-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mits-daksha-drone-gets-dgca-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s Daksha drone gets DGCA nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has approved the country\u2019s first petrol-operated drones designed and manufactured by the students\u2019 start-up unit \u2018Daksha Unmanned Systems Private Limited\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Daksha is developed by the MIT aerospace department initiated by the aerospace research students.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the DGCA issued the \u2018type certificate\u2019 to Daksha\u2019s prototype DH-Agrigator, an agriculture sprayer drone, the Daksha got about 50 pre-orders. MIT aerospace department associate professor K Senthil Kumar said, \u201cThe type certificate means the prototype can be manufactured and sold in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: The Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has approved the country\u2019s first petrol-operated drones designed and manufactured by the students\u2019 start-up unit \u2018Daksha Unmanned Systems Private Limited\u2019. Daksha is developed by the MIT aerospace department initiated by the aerospace research students. Soon after the DGCA issued the \u2018type certificate\u2019 to Daksha\u2019s prototype DH-Agrigator, an agriculture sprayer drone, the Daksha got about 50 pre-orders. MIT aerospace department associate professor K Senthil Kumar said, \u201cThe type certificate means the prototype can be manufactured and sold in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}