Palanivel Veeramuthuvel (born 22 October 1976) is an

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and

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who works for the

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. He served as the project director of the

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mission.

Early life and education

P Veeramuthuvel was born on 22 October 1976 in

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, India. He attended the railway school in Villupuram and earned a diploma in mechanical engineering from Ezhumalai Polytechnic College, Villupuram. He attended Sri Sai Ram Engineering College in

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for his

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degree in

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and then

NIT Trichy The National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT-Tiruchirappalli or NIT-Trichy) is a national research deemed university near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded as Regional Engineering College Tiruchirappa ...

for his

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degree. He further on completed his

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IIT Madras The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras or IIT-M) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the eight public Institutes of Eminence of India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), ...

from 2011 to 2015.

Career

Veeramuthuvel joined Lakshmi Engineering Works,

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as a senior engineer. He then joined the rotary wing research and design center of the helicopter division of

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Bangalore. He joined

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in 2004, where he worked on multiple projects and held various responsibilities, including planning for the second Mars Orbiter Mission. In parallel, he completed post-graduate studies at the

. Veeramuthuvel has served as the deputy director of the ISRO's main office's Space Infrastructure Programme. In 2019, he was appointed as the director of the

Chandrayaan 3 Chandrayaan-3 ( ) is the third mission in the Chandrayaan programme, a series of lunar-exploration missions developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission consists of a ''Vikram'' lunar lander and a ''Pragyan'' lunar ...

mission. He succeeded Muthayya Vanitha, who oversaw the Chandrayaan-2 mission as its project director. He was also instrumental in the Chandrayaan-2 mission, coordinating with

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on the project's prospects and science.

References

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