V Narayanan Appointed New ISRO Chief, Will Take Over From S Somanath

New Delhi:

The Centre has appointed V Narayanan as the brand new chairman of the Indian House Analysis Organisation and Secretary, Division of House. 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 mentioned Mr Narayanan, who’s the top of the Liquid Propulsion Programs Centre (LPSC), Valiamala, may have a tenure of two years.  Mr Narayanan, who may even be the Chairman of the House Fee, performed a key position in India’s growth of the cryogenic engine, a expertise that was denied to the nation.

Talking to NDTV from Thiruvananthapuram, the newly appointed ISRO chief mentioned, “We now have a transparent roadmap for India and I hope to take ISRO to better heights as now we have nice expertise,” 

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 growth of liquid, semi-cryogenic and cryogenic propulsion levels for launch automobiles, chemical and electrical propulsion techniques for satellites, management techniques for launch automobiles, and transducers growth for area techniques well being monitoring. 

He’s additionally the Chairman of the Mission Administration Council-House Transportation System (PMC-STS), the decision-making physique in all launch car initiatives and programmes, and the Chairman of the Nationwide Degree 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 skilled joined ISRO in 1984 and rose by the ranks to change 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 beneath him that India grew to become 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.