New Delhi:
The Centre has appointed V Narayanan as the brand new chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary, Department of Space. Mr Narayanan will take over from S Somanath, the present head of the organisation, on January 14.
In a notification on Tuesday, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet stated Mr Narayanan, who’s the pinnacle of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), Valiamala, can have a tenure of two years. Mr Narayanan, who can even be the Chairman of the Space Commission, performed a key function in India’s improvement of the cryogenic engine, a know-how that was denied to the nation.
Speaking to NDTV from Thiruvananthapuram, the newly appointed ISRO chief stated, “We have a transparent roadmap for India and I hope to take ISRO to better heights as we’ve got nice expertise,”
Mr Narayanan is a distinguished scientist (APEX Scale) and seniormost director in ISRO. The Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, which he heads, is engaged within the improvement of liquid, semi-cryogenic and cryogenic propulsion levels for launch automobiles, chemical and electrical propulsion methods for satellites, management methods for launch automobiles, and transducers improvement for area methods well being monitoring.
He can also be the Chairman of the Project Management Council-Space Transportation System (PMC-STS), the decision-making physique in all launch car tasks and programmes, and the Chairman of the National Level Human Rated Certification Board (HRCB) for Gaganyaan, India’s deliberate human spaceflight mission.
Having studied in Tamil-medium colleges, Mr Narayanan chief accomplished his M Tech in Cryogenic Engineering and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur, the place he was awarded a Silver Medal for attaining the primary rank within the M Tech programme. The rocket and spacecraft propulsion knowledgeable joined ISRO in 1984 and rose by the ranks to turn into the director of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre in 2018.
S Somanath took over because the ISRO chief in January 2022 and it was underneath him that India turned the primary nation on the earth to land a rover within the south pole area of the Moon. It additionally joined an elite membership of nations to realize a smooth touchdown on the Moon, after the US, the previous Soviet Union, and China.