Bangalore, August 6: The engineering model of India’s second satellite is now fast nearing completion at Peenya, a city suburb. A team of about 400 space scientists, engineers and others is busy keeping up the model schedule displaying a unique team spirit.The space engineers at the Indian Scientific Satellite Project (ISSP) are in the age group of 25 to 32 and they appear to be as much excited and interested in the design, fabrication and testing of the second satellite as they were about the first satellite “Aryabhata”.Dr. U.R. Rao, Director of the ISSP, told a Samachar correspondent who visited the project to-day that he found among his staff the same enthusiasm and team spirit that enabled the successful fabrication and testing of the “Aryabhata” for making the second satellite now. The second satellite, called the Satellite for Earth Observation (SEO), will conduct experimental studies in the earth observation with special application in areas of meteorology, oceanography and forestry. It is expected to be launched from a USSR cosmodrome in 1977-78. Published - August 07, 2026 02:13 am IST
From The Hindu Archives, August 7, 1976: Second satellite model to be ready by next year
From The Hindu Archives, August 7, 1976: The engineering model of India’s second satellite is now fast nearing completion at Peenya, a city suburb. A team of about 400 space scientists, engineers and others is busy keeping up the model schedule displaying a unique team spirit.
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