Google Doodle honours India's Satellite Man, Udupi Ramachandra Rao on his Birth Anniversary

On the birth anniversary of Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Google has honoured him with a Doodle. The Doodle showing him with a background of the earth and shooting stars. Udupi Ramachandra Rao is also known as India's Satellite Man. Rao supervised the 1975 launch of India's first satellite "Aryabhata," as a chairman of ISRO. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1976 and Padma Vibhushan in 2017.

New Delhi: Google honoured India's "Satellite Man" and renowned scientist late Udupi Ramachandra Rao with a Doodle showing him with a background of the earth and shooting stars, saying that his "stellar technological advancements continue to be felt across the galaxy". Google Doodle also tweeted about it.

• 🛰 The developer behind 20+ satellites
  ☀️ A cosmic-ray physicist
  🇮🇳 The leader of India's 1st interplanetary mission
  
  Learn how scientist & professor Udupi Ramachandra Rao propelled India's space program to dizzying heights with today's #GoogleDoodle → https://t.co/A53yuKP4oI pic.twitter.com/INw3v8JjHP

  — Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) March 9, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="

  🛰 The developer behind 20+ satellites
  ☀️ A cosmic-ray physicist
  🇮🇳 The leader of India's 1st interplanetary mission
  
  Learn how scientist & professor Udupi Ramachandra Rao propelled India's space program to dizzying heights with today's #GoogleDoodle → https://t.co/A53yuKP4oI pic.twitter.com/INw3v8JjHP

  — Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) March 9, 2021

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  🛰 The developer behind 20+ satellites
  ☀️ A cosmic-ray physicist
  🇮🇳 The leader of India's 1st interplanetary mission
  
  Learn how scientist & professor Udupi Ramachandra Rao propelled India's space program to dizzying heights with today's #GoogleDoodle → https://t.co/A53yuKP4oI pic.twitter.com/INw3v8JjHP

  — Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) March 9, 2021

• As chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Rao supervised the 1975 launch of India's first satellite "Aryabhata."
• Born on March 10, 1932, in Karnataka, Rao passed away in 2017.
• He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1976 and Padma Vibhushan in 2017.
• Rao started his career as a cosmic ray scientist and worked under the father of the Indian space programme, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.
• In association with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory group, Rao was the first to establish the continuous nature of the solar wind and its effect on geomagnetism using Mariner 2 observations.
• Rao's experiments on a number of Pioneer and Explorer spacecraft led to a complete understanding of the solar cosmic-ray phenomena and the electromagnetic state of the interplanetary space.
• 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 (IIST) at Thiruvananthapuram.
• Rao was inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame, Washington, in 2013 at a ceremony by the Society of Satellite Professionals International. With this, he became the first Indian to be inducted into that category.
• He also became the first Indian space scientist to be inducted into the Prestigious "IAF Hall of Fame" at Guadalajara, Mexico.
  

(Inputs from IANS)