Key facts
- Born
- Thuravoor
- State of birth
- Thuravoor, Kerala
- Sector
- Science & space
- Profession
- Indian aerospace engineer
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer served as the chairman of ISRO. Under his chairpersonship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named Chandrayaan-3. The lander named Vikram and the rover named Pragyan landed near the lunar south pole region on 23 August 2023 at 18:04 IST, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth country to demonstrate soft landing on the Moon.
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Timeline
- 2022Becomes Chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organization
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
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