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In 1950, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) was founded with Bhabha as its secretary. [15] It provided funding for space research throughout India. [16] During this time, tests continued on aspects of meteorology and the Earth's magnetic field, a topic that had been studied in India since the establishment of the Colaba Observatory in 1823.
Summary [ edit ] The book starts off in Trombay , where R. Aravamudan was working in 1962 and takes the reader through the TERLS , the various ISRO 'eras' in his own words—led by Vikram Sarabhai , Satish Dhawan , Udupi Ramachandra Rao —all the way till the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle story.
The Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) was founded in 1962 under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) with Vikram Sarabhai as its chairperson which in 1969 became ISRO. [3] In 1972, government of India had set up a space commission and DOS and brought ISRO under DOS. [4]
It is India's first interplanetary spaceflight mission and ISRO has become the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. India is the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt. [10] [11]
In 1950, the Department of Atomic Energy was founded which provided funding throughout India on space research. During this time, tests continued on aspects of meteorology and the Earth's magnetic field. Two observatories were established, one at foothills of Himalayas in Uttar Pradesh in 1954 and the other at Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1957.
The book, with over 350 photos, [6] is the sequel of From Fishing Hamlet To Red Planet, published in 2015. These two books are considered to be the most authoritative and official history of the Indian Space Research Organisation—the only history books to have been authorized by the space organization. [7]
ISRO's Vikas (rocket engine) is named after him. On his 100th birthday on 12 August 2019, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced an award in the name of Vikram Sarabhai. The Vikram Sarabhai Journalism award in Space Science Technology and Research will be given to those journalists who have contributed to the fields of space ...
Udupi Ramachandra Rao (10 March 1932 – 24 July 2017) was an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. [1] He was also the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad and Nehru Planetarium at Bengaluru and chancellor of the Indian Institute for Space Science and Technology at Thiruvananthapuram. [2]