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UR Rao, who is one of the top most space
scientists of India, has been inducted
into Satellite Hall of Fame in Washington DC of the United States of America by the Society of Satellite Professionals
International.
Today Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) published a statement to publish this news of honor.
The following is a small excerpt of what ISRO said in its latest statement,
"Rao is the first
Indian space scientist to be inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame and joins
the select group of about 50 members, including Arthur C. Clarke, Van Allen,
Harold Rosen, Peter Jackson and Robert Berry, among others."
Mr. UR Rao is the active Chairman
of
the Physical Research Laboratory
i.e. situated in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. UR Rao is a very well known space
scientist, and he has been contributing to the development process of Advanced Indian
space technology and its key application to communications and all important
remote sensing of all possible and available natural resources since 1960s.
He is a very dedicated scientist, and a very respectable name in the
genre of Space researches. He is
one of the leading personalities, and was sole fully responsible for
the creation of country’s space and satellite capabilities, and their
application. This application contributed a lot in the overall development
procedure of India’s space success. It has to be mentioned here that India’s first
Space Weather Reading Centre to
be set up in Kolkata.
He served almost a decade
(1984-94) as the Chairman of ISRO,
and he was responsible of establishing satellite technology in India. He leaded
India to achieve a few great milestones, and as a good result of that today the
modern India is
considered as one of the fore most countries in Space Research field.
In the year of 1992 as the
Chairman of ISRO, Rao had taken the imitative of launching ASLV rocket and the operational PSLV launch vehicle. Thus he provided a new era by accelerating the
development of rocket technology in
India.
Mr. UR Rao inherited the
idea of using space technology in the key sectors like broadcasting, remote
sensing, disaster warning, education and meteorology. This idea worked, and
these sectors got innumerous number of benefits. He served as countrymen to his
optimum possible level by providing good usage of space technology
that brought up the speed and accuracy.
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