Anuradha TK
Anuradha T.K. | |
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Born |
Bangalore, Mysore State, India | 30 April 1960
Residence | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
Anuradha T.K. is an Indian scientist and project director of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), specialized communication satellites. She has worked on the launches of the satellites GSAT-12 and GSAT-10. She is the senior most female scientist at ISRO, having joined the space agency in 1982,[1][2] and also the first woman to become a satellite project director at ISRO.[3]
Biography
Anuradha TK was born in Bangalore, Mysore State (now Karnataka) in 1961.[4] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in electronics from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering in Bangalore.[5] Unlike many of her classmates, she chose to stay in India to pursue her career.[4]
Career
Anuradha TK works as an Indian Geosat Programme Director at ISRO Satellite Centre. She works in the area of geo-synchronous satellites, which are crucial to telecom and data links.[6] She has been a leading figure in several Indian space programs.[7]
Anuradha's role was instrumental in developing and launching the ISRO communication satellite GSAT-12 satellite into space from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 15 July 2011.[8][9][10] She supervised and headed the technical group of 20 engineers.[7] As a part of an all-women research team, together with Pramoda Hedge and Anuradha Prakash, she manoeuvered the GSAT-12 into its final orbit from ISRO's Master Control Facility (MCF) in Hassan.[1][2][9][10]
After working with the GSAT-12, Anuradha TK led the launch of the much bigger communication satellite GSAT-10 in September 2012.[10][4]
As the project director, she also oversaw the launch of the GSAT-9, GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 communication satellites. She has also served as Project Manager, Deputy Project Director and Associate Project Director for the Indian Remote Sensing and the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System programs.[2][5] Her specialty is satellite checkout systems which observe a satellite's performance once it is in space.[11]
Awards
- 2003 Space Gold Medal award by Astronautical Society of India for the services in the field of Space sciences
- 2011 Suman Sharma Award by National Design and Research Forum (NDRF) of IEI
- 2012 ASI- ISRO Merit Award for Realisation of Indigenous Communication spacecraft
- 2012 ISRO Team Award 2012 for being team leader for the realisation of GSAT-12[7]
References
- 1 2 "The women scientists who took India into space". BBC News. 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- 1 2 3 "Meet ISRO's 'Space Girls'". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ info@biharprabha.com, Bihar Reporter :. "Meet the lady behind success of RISAT I". The Biharprabha News. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- 1 2 3 ISS. "Reaching out to the skies". indianspacestation.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- 1 2 "T K ANURADHA". 2014-02-21. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- ↑ "India's rocket women". Deccan Herald. 2017-02-26. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- 1 2 3 "Smt T K Anuradha – IEEE WIE Global Summit 2016". wiesummit.ieeer10.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "ISRO successfully launches latest communication satellite GSAT-12". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
- 1 2 Martin, Max (23 July 2011). "ISRO banks on womanpower for GSAT-12". India Today. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Only the sky is the limit". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "Woman's hand in India's latest satellite". Sify. Retrieved 2017-04-04.