On similar enthusiastic note to encourage aspiring space scientists and astronauts amongst Bangalore's children, Noca greeted the young participants by asking them, 'hope to work with you all in near future'.

The vibrant young crowd responded with a loud 'yes'.

'The satellite SwissCube has been developed by around 200 students of Switzerland over a period of three years. If they can do it, so do you all,' said Noca.

The SwissCube satellite has been developed at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne and is scheduled to be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh by the end of 2009.

'The scientific objectives of the SwissCube are to observe oxygen emission in order to characterise the airglow intensity as a function of the observation angle (zenith or limb measurements), the altitude, the latitude and the local time,' said Noca.