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The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme. [2] It is located in Thiruvananthapuram , in the Indian state of Kerala .
Following a controversial S-band spectrum deal involving Antrix Corporation, he had to step down. 7 Dr. K. Radhakrishnan (1949–) 30 October 2009: 31 December 2014: 5 years, 62 days [12] [13] [14] He joined VSSC as a development engineer for electro-mechanical devices of launch vehicles and later oversaw annual budget and plans and database ...
In 2009, Dr S Ramakrishnan took over as Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre - VSSC from Veeraraghavan, [5] who has been appointed as Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation. Under his able leadership, VSSC made sparkling successes through 6 missions of PSLV namely PSLV C15/CARTOSAT 2B, PSLV C16/ RESOURCESAT, PSLV C17/GSAT12, PSLC18 ...
It has two units located at Valiamala, in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and Bengaluru, Karnataka. LPSC is augmented by ISRO Propulsion Complex at Mahendragiri of Tamil Nadu. LPSC is engaged in development of liquid and cryogenic propulsion stages for launch vehicles and auxiliary propulsion systems for both launch vehicles and satellites.
National Recruitment Agency [1] is a Central Recruitment Agency established by the Government of India, that will conduct a Common Eligibility Test (CET) [2] for selection to all of the Group C and Group D employee posts in all central government establishments which includes all of the central public sector undertakings and all of the central autonomous bodies. [3]
[1] [2] [3] [9] In June 2014, he was made the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). [1] [2] [3] He was also the head of the launch authorisation board of Chandrayaan-1 project. [8] In May 2016, the Government of Kerala appointed MC Dathan as the scientific advisor to chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. [6] [7]
A team of 750 engineers at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, National Aerospace Laboratories, and Indian Institute of Science worked on the design and development of RLV-TD and the associated rocket. RLV-TD underwent 120 hours of wind tunnel , 5,000 hours of computational fluid dynamics and 1,100 runs of flight simulation tests.
The lander on India's Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 which was to land near the South Pole of the Moon on Sep 20, 2019 was named Vikram in his honour. Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Centre (VASCSC) located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat is named after him. Vikram Sarabhai established this institute around the 1960s.