New Delhi, Oct 5 (PTI) Girl students from rural Madhya Pradesh, who are part of a team developing a spacecraft -- ShakthiSAT -- that will be sent to the Moon, called on President Droupadi Murmu.

The students, part of a global, all-girls initiative of Chennai-based space start-up Space Kidz India, met the president at the Rashtrapati Bhavan last week and presented an update on the Mission ShakthiSAT under which they plan to send a satellite to the low-earth orbit in December and to the Moon next year.

"Mission ShakthiSAT stands as an unprecedented global model for STEM empowerment, uniting 12,000 students from 108 nations in the collaborative effort to design, develop, and deploy a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon," Srimathy Kesan, founder and CEO of Space Kidz India, told PTI.

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