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The Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation is the statutory head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The officeholder is a secretary to the Government of India and an executive of the Department of Space (DOS) which directly reports to the Prime Minister of India. [2]
[15] [16] On 23 August 2023, he as ISRO chairman spearheaded the soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the South Pole of the lunar surface along with other notable senior ISRO scientists. Somanath earned his PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras and was awarded his doctorate during the institute's 61st convocation on 19 ...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO / ˈ ɪ s r oʊ /) [a] is India's national space agency. It serves as the principal research and development arm of the Department of Space (DoS), overseen by the Prime Minister of India , with the Chairman of ISRO also serving as the chief executive of the DoS.
Sivan was appointed the chief of ISRO in January 2018 and he assumed office on 15 January. [13] Under his chairmanship, ISRO launched Chandrayaan-2 , the second mission to the Moon on 22 July 2019, of which Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover crashed; the orbiter was not affected and is still orbiting the Moon as of September 2023.
K. Radhakrishnan [2] a.k.a. Koppillil Radhakrishnan [3] (born 29 August 1949) is an Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as Chairman of Space Commission, Secretary of the Department of Space, Government of India.
This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems , one leader is head of state and head of government . In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems , the head of state and the head of government are different people.
Kiran Kumar Aluru Seelin was born in a veerashaiva lingayat religion in Hassan District in 1952, [8] in the Indian state of Karnataka. He graduated in Physics (Honours). In 1971, from the National College of Bangalore University. [3] [9] This was followed by a degree of MSc in Electronics from the same university, in 1973. [8]
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