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100			_aRao U R
245			_aIndia's rise as a space power
260			_aDelhi _bFoundation Books _c2014
300			_a209p _cxvii
365			_b Rs. 695
505			_aDescription: India’s Rise as a Space Power by Prof. U. R. Rao is a classic chronicle of Indian space saga from being a nascent industry to an emerged space power, in just few decades of rapid evolution in indigenous space technologies, which occurred in parallel with the development in India’s agriculture, science, IT and telecommunication industries. Summary of the Book Padma Bhushan Prof. U. R Rao’s unparalleled experience and involvement in Indian space industry has contributed to a great extent for him to write his latest book India’s Rise as a Space Power. It is an elaborative narration of different epochs in India’s space journey. Being one of the pioneers in satellite technologies and space sciences, Professor Rao describes India’s emergence as a well-established space player from a first person perspective. The book brings out a chronological sequence of events from the days of the genius Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, who perceived the utmost need of a space program for a developing country like India, to the days when his visions were realized by a series of technological breakthroughs. Although the book tends to emphasize a bit more on mathematics in some of its sections, which is not very usual in works with a historical context attached to it, the author successfully presents an overall picture of India’s space endeavours, by carefully bringing out important milestones in the fields of launch vehicles, satellite technologies, remote sensing applications in agriculture and weather forecasting, geostationary telecommunication technologies, and fruitful international partnerships which have paved the way for great collaborative efforts in reaching the space.
650			_a1. Outer Space - Exploration - India2. Artificial Satellites3. Space Vehicles
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