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#VIKRAMSARABHAI - The Father of Bharat’s Space Programme.

The Scientist Who Dreamt Of #Atmanirbharata In Space Research.
On his Punyasmaran Divas let us know how he achieved something unimaginable.

It was late 1960s, the European Union’s Satellites failed one after another in
Austalia’s launch station and they decided to stop further launches.
To avoid losses they decided to sell unused “Satellite Telemetry and Tracking” devices and placed ad in prominent journals and magazines.
Vikram Sarabhai read this advertisement and called up Arvamudan,
a scientist who working at Tumba and called him to Bombay.
In Bombay, Sarabhai met Aravamudan and another scientist H G S Murthy asked them to proceed to Australia.
The 2 scientists went to RBI and asked for Blank DD, the RBI officer got angry & sent these 2 scientists out,
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#Atmanirbharata is not about slogans. It's about taking short term pain for long term self reliance. For 30 years @ZenTechnologies has been insisting on buying indigenously designed, dev, and mfd defence items. Do you know how it was countered?
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"In war there are no runners up" & "I want the best for my boys" were the statements used to kill Indian R&D & promote foreign equipment. While Netanyahu said that he will buy Israeli equipment even if it offers 60% functionality of the world's best. 2/5
We know the outcomes in each country. The present Govt is taking some very harsh decisions in the long term interests of the company. Still there are some companies that are promoting foreign tech disguised as Indian R&D or with the promise of future indigenisation. 3/5
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#VIKRAMSARABHAI – The Scientist Who Dreamt Of #Atmanirbharata In Space Research.
On his Punyasmaran Divas, 4 incidents which is not known to many.
1) It was late 1960s, the European Union’s Satellites failed one after another in Austalia’s launch station and they decided to stop
further launches.
To avoid losses they decided to sell unused “Satellite Telemetry and Tracking” devices and placed ad in prominent journals and magazines.
Vikram Sarabhai read this advertisement and called up Arvamudan, a scientist who working at Tumba and called him to Bombay.
In Bombay, Sarabhai met Aravamudan and another scientist H G S Murthy asked them to proceed to Australia.
The 2 scientists went to RBI and asked for Blank DD, the RBI officer got angry & sent these 2 scientists out, the 2 scientists called up Sarabhai, he after listening to them
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#VIKRAMSARABHAI – The Scientist Who Dreamt Of #Atmanirbharata In Space Research.
On his Punyasmaran Divas, few stories about this great personality.
It was late 1960s, the European Union’s Satellites failed one after another in Austalia’s launch station and they decided to stop
further launches.
To avoid losses they decided to sell unused “Satellite Telemetry and Tracking” devices and placed ad in prominent journals and magazines.
Vikram Sarabhai read this advertisement and called up Arvamudan, a scientist who working at Tumba and called him to Bombay.
In Bombay, Sarabhai met Aravamudan and another scientist H G S Murthy asked them to proceed to Australia.
The 2 scientists went to RBI and asked for Blank DD, the RBI officer got angry & sent these 2 scientists out, the 2 scientists called up Sarabhai, he after listening to them
Read 15 tweets

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