Sriharikota, Jul 12 (KMW): The nine-month-long wait was over.For Dr K Radhakrishnan, who has nearly four decade-long experiences in space technology, today's PSLV-C15 Mission was the first success after taking over as the Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The success of the mission was all the more significant for him as it comes in the backdrop of the failure of the GSLV-D3 Mission in April this year, the first launch after he took over from his predecessor Dr G Madhavan Nair in November last year. An accomplished technocrat with a distinguished career of more than 38 years in space technology, applications and space programme management, Dr Radhakrishnan is an Electrical Engineering Graduate from Kerala University (1970) and MBA from IIM, Bangalore (1976). Starting his career as an Avionics Engineer in 1971 at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), he commendably held several decisive positions in ISRO before becoming VSSC Director and playing a key role in the Chandrayaan-1 Mission, responsible for realization of PSLV C-11 launch vehicle with a new set of strap-on motors and a new mission design and Moon Impact Probe (MIP) that impacted on the surface of Moon in mid-November 2008. As VSSC head he was instrumental in five successful launches of PSLV, including the Chandrayaan-1.
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