Meet the men behind Mars Mission

The A-team of Isro worked tirelessly to make the Mission success

ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan watches the Mars Orbit insertion operations at ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network, in Bangalore (Pic: BS Photo)
BS Reporter Chennai
Last Updated : Sep 25 2014 | 2:35 AM IST
K Radhakrishnan: Isro chairman and Department of Space secretary. He became chairman in 2009, and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2014

Mylswamy Annadurai: Programme director of Mangalyaan. He was leading the remote sensing and science missions; responsible for budget management, direction for spacecraft configuration, schedule and resources. He was the project director of Chandrayaan-1 and now Chandrayaan-2

S Ramakrishnan: Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. He is one of the key brains in the development of PSLV and is responsible for development of liquid propulsion stages and their interfacing with vehicle and launch operations. He is responsible for realising the PSLV that ferried Mars orbiter.

Shivkumar: Director of ISRO Satellite Centre, developed the telemetry system for MOM

V Adimurthy: Mission concept designer of MOM

P Kunhikrishnan: Project director of PSLV Programme. He was the mission director of eight successful PSLV Missions. He is the mission director of PSLV-C25/MOM. He was responsible for seeing the rocket complete its mission successfully

Subbiah Arunan: Project director of MOM. He was responsible for building the spacecraft.

B Jayakumar: Associate project director of PSLV project, responsible for the rocket systems. Chief general manager of range operation at Sriharikota Rocket port.

He was responsible for maintaining launch schedules without any slippages.
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First Published: Sep 25 2014 | 12:50 AM IST

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