The second Space Technology Incubation Centre (S-TIC) in the series was inaugurated by Dr K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary, DOS on 17th January 2019 through video mode from Bengaluru in the presence of Dr Lalit Kumar Awasthi, Director NIT Jalandhar and Dr P V Venkitakrishnan, Director, CBPO, ISRO HQ. The concept of Space Technology Incubation Centre is to bring the Industry, academia and ISRO triad under one umbrella to contribute towards the R & D initiatives relevant to Indian Space Programme.

The S-TIC concept is conceived with one selected major academic institute taking the lead role in a particular region and providing opportunities for final year graduate, post–graduate and research scholars. The research outcome of these students will be translated into a Proof of Concept or prototype through industries tied up with the S-TIC through ISRO. The qualification and validation of these products will be carried out in the labs of ISRO. Once qualified, there will be a buy back agreement of this product for future programmes of ISRO thereby eliminating the marketing effort. The first S-TIC was inaugurated at NIT Agartala on September 18, 2018 and it started functioning.