International Women’s Day: 8 ISRO women scientists to be felicitated for work in Chandrayaan mission

These include Kalpana Kalahasthi, associate project director and second in command of the mission; Nandini Harinath, project director and mission designer; Nihar Shaji project director, Aditya L1 mission who also headed the Satellite Telemetry Centre at ISRO; Dr Madhavi S Thakre, who was project manager of the entire process from conception to its implementation; Athulya S Devi, deputy director, Avionics, Revathi Harikrishnan, Group Director, Propulsion and Electronics; Usha K. group director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit; and Kalpana Arvind, associate director, responsible for path planning stereo vision cameras and the rover payload.

Chairman ISRO, Dr S Somanath and leader of Lunar Mission and Dr. P.Veeramuthuvel, Project director of Chandrayan 3 will also be honoured at the event.