Nandini Harinath is a scientist. at ISRO's (

Indian Space Research Organisation The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ) is India's national List of government space agencies, space agency, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It serves as the principal research and development arm of the Department of Space (DoS), ...

) Satellite Centre in

Bengaluru Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...

. She is a part of the Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan . She has co-authored a research paper on mission planning, analysis and operations—Outline of key components. .

Life

Nandini's first exposure to science was the popular series

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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

. She has two daughters and a niece .

Career

ISRO was the first job that Nandini applied to and now it's been 20 years. She has worked on 14 missions over 20 years at ISRO. She is the Project Manager, Mission Designer and served as deputy operations director on the

Mars Orbiter Mission Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), unofficially known as ''Mangalyaan'' (Sanskrit: 'Mars', 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24 September 2014. It was launched on 5 November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ...

, also called Mangalyaan.

Publications

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

References

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