ISRO scientist P S Veeraraghavan takes over as Director VSSC
Shri P.S. Veeraraghavan, A well known scientist of ISRO and Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), assumed the office of Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
He took over the charge on Oct 31st , 2009 from Dr. K. Radhakrishnan who has taken over as Secretary, Dept. of Space and Chairman of ISRO from Dr G Madhavan Nair.
Shri Parivakkam Subramaniam Veeraraghavan has made very significant contributions for the launch vehicle technology of ISRO starting from the first SLV-3 Project. After obtaining his M.Tech. degree from I.I.T., Chennai, Shri Veeraraghavan joined VSSC in 1971. His first assignment was in SLV-3 Project under the leadership of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, as Engineer-in-Charge of Checkout System development. He was responsible for the design and development of the first checkout system for the first SLV-3 Project.
Shri Veeraraghavan has made pioneering contributions in the area of integration and checkout of ISROs launch vehicles. As Deputy Director of Mechanisms & Vehicle Integration Testing (MVIT), he was instrumental for assembly, integration and checkout of ISROs launch vehicles PSLV and GSLV till 2002.
After assuming the charge of the Director, IISU since 2002, he was responsible for the inertial systems development in ISRO for both launch vehicles and spacecraft.
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