# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/udupi-ramachandra-rao
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:59:21.194Z

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name: "Udupi Ramachandra Rao"
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description: "Udupi Ramachandra Rao was an Indian space scientist and former chairman of ISRO. He was also the Chairman of the Governing Council of the Physical Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad and Nehru Planetarium at Bengaluru and chancellor of the Indian Institute for Space Science and Technology (IIST) at Thiruvananthapuram. He is known as \"The Satellite Man of India\". He pioneered India's first satellite launch Aryabhata in 1975."
tagline: "Indian space scientist (1932–2017)"
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birthDate: "1932-03-10"
deathDate: "2017-07-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump