Nandini Harinath

Nandini Harinath is a rocket scientist at ISRO’s (Indian Space Research Organisation) Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.[1]

Life

Nandini’s first exposure to science was the popular series Star Trek on television. Her mother is a maths teacher and her father is an engineer and as a family, they were all interested in science fiction and Star Trek.[2]

She has two daughters.[3]

Career

ISRO was the first job that Nandini applied to and now it’s been 20 years.[2] She has worked on 14 missions over 20 years at ISRO.[1] She is the Project Manager, Mission Design[4] and served as deputy operations director on the Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Maangalyaan.

Publications

  1. A Mechanism for Observed Interannual Variabilities over the Equatorial Indian Ocean[5]
  2. Resourcesat-1 mission planning, analysis and operations—Outline of key components[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "India's Rocket Women: Meet The Women Of ISRO – Rocket Women". rocket-women.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  2. 1 2 "The women scientists who took India into space". BBC News. 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  3. ↑ "Meet the women behind Mangalyaan mission". Rediff. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  4. ↑ "The Less Celebrated Success Stories in Mission Mars - ChandigarhX". ChandigarhX. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  5. 1 2 "Nandini Harinath - Publications". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
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