New Delhi:
The Centre has appointed V Narayanan as the brand new chairman of the Indian Area Analysis Organisation and secretary, Division of Area. 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 Cupboard stated Mr Narayanan, who’s the pinnacle of the Liquid Propulsion Programs Centre (LPSC), Valiamala, may have a tenure of two years. Mr Narayanan performed a key function in India’s improvement of the cryogenic engine, a know-how that was denied to the nation.
Mr Narayanan is a distinguished scientist (APEX Scale) and seniormost director in ISRO. The Liquid Propulsion Programs Centre, which he heads, is engaged within the improvement of liquid, semi cryogenic and cryogenic propulsion phases for launch autos, chemical and electrical propulsion methods for satellites, management methods for launch autos, and transducers improvement for house methods well being monitoring.
He’s additionally the chairman of the Venture Administration Council-Area Transportation System (PMC-STS), the decision-making physique in all launch car initiatives and programmes, and the chairman of the Nationwide Stage Human Rated Certification Board (HRCB) for Gaganyaan, India’s deliberate human spaceflight mission.
Having studied in Tamil-medium faculties, the brand new ISRO 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 reaching 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 Programs Centre in 2018.
S Somanath took over because the ISRO chief in January 2022 and it was below him that India turned the primary nation on the planet 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.