Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 24 - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the new campus of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) Tuesday through a tele-link function to be held concurrently at the Prime MInister's House and the campus site in Valiamala near here.

The chancellor of IIST is former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

Addressing reporters here, IIST director B.N. Suresh said Manmohan Singh would give a special address at 6.45 p.m. Tuesday, and the function would take place at the new campus here.

'This institute has been conceived as the world's first space university and will offer a complete range of academic programmes from the undergraduate to the post graduate level,' Suresh said.