ISRO chairman lauds space scientist B.N. Suresh’s contribution to Indian space programme

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ISRO president  V. Narayanan, addressing the assemblage  during the merchandise  of Kannada translation of biography of renowned abstraction  idiosyncratic    B.N. Suresh, successful  Shivamogga connected  Saturday.

ISRO president V. Narayanan, addressing the assemblage during the merchandise of Kannada translation of biography of renowned abstraction idiosyncratic B.N. Suresh, successful Shivamogga connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: S.K. Dinesh

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Highlighting the contributions of abstraction idiosyncratic and Padma Bhushan awardee B.N. Suresh to the Indian abstraction programme, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman V. Narayanan stated connected Saturday that helium was mentored and guided by Mr. Suresh passim his career.”

Mr. Narayanan spoke successful Shivamogga aft releasing the Kannada translation of Suresh’s biography, “Onto a Rocket Ship.” The book, primitively written by Sunil Suresh, has been translated into Kannada by Turuvanooru Mallikarjun, a module subordinate astatine Jnanadeepa School successful Shivamogga.

Mr. Narayanan said that ISRO, successful the past six decades, has made India arrogant with its galore accomplishments. Suresh joined the institute arsenic an technologist a fewer days earlier it was formally founded successful 1969. “Mr. Suresh has been portion of the travel of ISRO. In fact, the communicative of Suresh is the communicative of ISRO arsenic well. He was portion of the squad that worked connected India’s archetypal indigenous outer motorboat conveyance nether the enactment of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,” helium stated.

Appreciating his skills arsenic a systems technologist and squad builder, Mr. Narayanan noted that Suresh had been a portion of each large works astatine ISRO. “So far, the institute has conducted 105 motorboat conveyance missions, and Mr. Suresh headed the ngo readiness reappraisal committee for 49 of those missions—a singular achievement,” helium said. Acknowledging Suresh's enactment qualities, Mr. Narayanan observed that whenever a ngo is accomplished successfully, galore assertion credit, but not during failures. “We salute Mr. Suresh due to the fact that helium took work erstwhile 1 of the missions failed,” helium recalled. He besides mentioned that Suresh mentored galore scientists successful his vocation and galore of them became chairmen of the institute.

Expressing happiness astir the merchandise of the Kannada translation of his biography, Mr. Narayanan said that the publication would animate galore students from agrarian backgrounds successful Karnataka to execute large things successful their lives.

The programme was organised by the Sri Aurobindo Foundation for Education to people the National Science Day. Mr. B.N. Suresh, abstraction idiosyncratic and Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology; Prof. Sharath Ananthamurthy, Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University Sunil Suresh, writer of the biography; Talavane Prakash, president of the foundation; and others participated successful the programme.

Published - February 28, 2026 09:12 p.m. IST

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