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Akshata Krishnamurthy (Born December 27, 1990) is an Indian space systems engineer working as Principal Investigator and Science Phase Lead at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. [1] [2] She is currently working on Mars 2020. [3] She was named to Fortune India's "Most Powerful Women" [4]
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. [3] It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is similar, but deals with the electronics side of aerospace engineering.
India's interest in space travel began in the early 1960s, when scientists launched a Nike-Apache rocket from TERLS, Kerala. [6] [7] The Indian National Committee for Space Research was subsequently set up, which later became the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) [11] functioning under a new independent Department of Space (DoS) in the 1970s under the Prime Minister of India.
NASA India is an autonomous, non-profitable, non-political, non-religious, and democratic body for the undergraduate students of Architecture in India. NASA India is a non-profit and non-political association registered under the Societies Act 1860 vides no. 24786 as applicable to the National Capital Territory of New Delhi, India.
Scarlin Hernandez (born 1991) – aerospace engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Hall Hibbard (1903–1996) – Lockheed engineer; Homer Hickam (born 1943) – NASA engineer, model rocketry enthusiast; Geoffrey T. R. Hill (1895–1955) – designer of the Westland-Hill Pterodactyls and co-developed the aero-isoclinic wing
Swati Mohan is an Indian-American aerospace engineer and was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 mission. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life and education
In spring 2009 a full-scale mock-up of the crew capsule was built and delivered to Satish Dhawan Space Centre for training of astronauts. India will be short listing 200 Indian Air Force pilots for this purpose. The selection process would begin by the candidates having to complete an ISRO questionnaire, after which they would be subjected to ...
While still working, she started a Masters in Aerospace Engineering at San Jose State University, which she finished in 2010. [5] [7] At this time she also had had her second son. [5] In 2012 she was offered the job of Senior Principal Software Engineer in Operations Engineer at the Kepler mission, a position she held for 3.5 years.