Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) new chairman will be K.Radhakrishnan.
The first priority of Radhakrishnan would be to develop the cryogenic engine to be used for GSLV to be launched this year-end.
Radhakrishnan said the new assignment was a huge responsibility and he would do his best to carry on the good work of his predecessors notably Madhavan Nair, Dr. Kasturirangan and U.R.Rao.
Radhakrsishnan is one of India’s senior most space scientist who has played a role in the launch of 24 space missions including Chandrayaan.
Radhakrishnan, an electrical engineer from Kerala University of the 1970 batch, holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore and a doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur.
Starting his career at ISRO here as an avionics engineer in 1971, he went on to hold key positions such as director of the Regional Remote Sensing Service Centres and the director of Indian National Cenre for Ocean Information sciences.
Radhakrishnan has been a member of the Space Commission since October 2008.