Here are the Students short story behind AzaadiSAT-2 - in English & தமிழ்
English Tamil Sathyavani a class eleven student and who’s father is a bus conductor turned emotional as she watched SSLV lift off in front of her eyes at Satish Dhawan Space Centre’s large viewers gallery in Sriharikota on Friday. She has played a little role in the making of AzaadiSAT-2, one of the three satellites the rocket successfully put in the orbit. She told tellmystory.in “I want to become a Space Scientist. My inspiration is like Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams”. In another part of the gallery, Nishat Anjom, a class VIII student from a school in Karnataka too made up her mind to pursue space science. Her father is an automobile mechanic. Nishat said “When the rocket blasted off I was inspired to launch my own satellite sometime”. The project involving 750 girls from school across India, largely from government schools from Kashmir to Kanniyakumari began last year as part of ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organisation) launch of SSLV (Small ...