Amitabh Singh is an Indian Space Scientist. He was Project Manager for Chandrayaan-1 Mission and Deputy Project Director & Operation Director for Chandrayaan-2 Mission at

Indian Space Research Organization The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO; ) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under the Department of Space (DOS) which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India, while the Chairman of ...

. He handled the optical payload data processing and on-board algorithm related to Chandrayaan-2 Lander and Rover. He is also a Guest Faculty at Department of Physics, Electronics & Space Science of the

Gujarat University The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the postgraduate level. It is accredited B++ by N ...

. He is working for upcoming

Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 (, ; ) is a planned third lunar exploration mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Following Chandrayaan-2, where a last-minute glitch in the soft landing guidance software led to the failure of the lander's ...

project. He has authored some books on Chandrayaan 1 and articles on Planetary Geomatics and Exploring the Moon in three dimension. He has been awarded the ISRS Young Achiever Award by the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Dehradun.

Early life

Amitabh Singh was born at Kubauli village of

Samastipur Samastipur is a city and a municipal corporation ( nagar nigam) in Bihar, India. It is the headquarter of Samastipur district and comes under Darbhanga division. The Budhi Gandak river flows through the town. It is one of the five railway ...

district in Bihar. His wife is a senior doctor.

Education

Anugrah Narayan College, Patna

He studied M.Sc (Electronics) from Department of Physics, A N College Patna.

BIT, Mesra

He studied M.Tech from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.

Bibliography

* Chandrayaan-1 se liye gaye Chandrama Ke Pratibimb, * Images of Moon from Chandrayaan-1,

Awards

* ISRS Young Achiever Award (2008)

References

Indian Space Research Organisation Physics educators Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Samastipur Mithila {{improve categories, date=November 2021