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The album consists of photos from the UVIT MGK Menon lab construction site at the CREST campus, Hoskote. The CREST (Centre for Research and Education in Science and Technology) campus is one of the centres of IIA where the M.G.K. Menon Laboratory for Space Sciences has been established, which has facilities for integrating and calibrating space payloads. This laboratory also contains equipment for the test and space qualification of components. The photos were taken during the third stage of construction of the lab in 2005.

The album contains photos captured during the meeting on UVIT-PDR (Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope on Astrosat) held at IIA Bangalore campus on 3 March 2006. IIA is collaborating with ISRO, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) to develop an UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), which is one of the payloads on satellite Astrosat.