Who is Aroh Barjatya, Indian-origin researcher who led NASA’s sounding rockets mission during solar eclipse

Who is Aroh Barjatya?

Aroh Barjatya is a professor of Engineering Physics and Director of Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)

He was born to Ashok Kumar Barjatya, a chemical engineer, and Rajeshwari, a homemaker. His sister Apurva Barjatya is a mechanical engineer. Aroh did his schooling in Patalganga near Mumbai and later went to schools in Hyderabad, Jaipur, Pilani, Solapur and completed his electronics engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur.

He moved to the United States in 2001 and completed his masters in electrical and electronics engineering at Utah State University, according to his LinkedIn profile. He later pursued his PhD in spacecraft instrumentation from the Utah State University Research Foundation and has more than than 16 years of experience in space systems engineering and aerospace instrumentation research according to his LinkedIn profile.

“My deepest gratitude to all my fellow researchers at collaborating institutions and insanely capable and stellar students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, as well as, most crucially, to everyone at NASA Wallops Sounding Rocket Program Office and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for helping accomplish six complex rocket missions in six months!!!” Aroh Barjatya said in a post on LinkedIn after the launch.