October 2004 - June 2005

Contents

PSLV Launches CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT Master Control Facility at Bhopal Inaugurated Prime Minister Inaugurates Village Resource Centres (VRC) Consultative Committee on Regional Space Application Programme Meets at Bangalore ISRO and CNES Sign MOU on Megha-Tropiques Mission International Conference on Moon Held at Udaipur Indian Ocean Tsunami — Space Resources for Relief EDUSAT Applications Take off International Telemedicine Conference Held at Bangalore Agreement Signed for Production of Automatic Weather Stations Search for “Origin of Life”: ISRO-TIFR Balloon based Experiment

Editors S Krishnamurthy V Sundararamaiah Rajeev Lochan Editorial Assistance B R Guruprasad

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