Kiran Kumar appointed as new ISRO chief

January 13, 2015 | 04:09 PM | 132 Views

Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar on Monday was appointed as the new Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief. He was the director of Satellite Application Centre and joined ISRO in 1975. He was also behind the success of India's Mars Orbiter Mission which entered the Martian orbit on September 24. Kumar has contributed to the design and development of Electro-Optical Imaging Sensors for Airborne, LEO and GEO platform based imaging sensors starting from Bhaskara TV payload to the latest TMC adHySI payloads for Chandrayaan-1 missions.

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