Prof. U. R. Rao
Prof. Udupi Ramachandra Rao served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras from January 1997 to February 2000. He was an Indian space scientist and a former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation. He was also the Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) at Thiruvananthapuram. Known as the “Satellite Man of India,” he played a major role in the launch of India’s first satellite, Aryabhatta, in 1975.
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