Dr Mylsamy Annadurai is the new Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bengaluru. He led two of the India’s much celebrated space projects. ie The Mars mission and the Chandrayaan-1. An ISRO Press release states that he took charge as Director of ISAC on April 1 from S.K. Shivakumar, who retired on March 31. Previously Annadurai had been worked as Programme Director at Indian Remote Sensing Satellites and Small Satellite Systems.

As the Director of ISAC, Mylsamy Annadurai will guide development of satellite technology and execution of satellite systems for scientific, technological and application missions.

Tidbits

1. Mylsamy Annadurai was born in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India.
2. Annadurai joined ISRO in 1982 as the team leader to design and develop Software Satellite Simulator.
3. He was the Project Director of Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar probe, in 2009.
4. He played a key role in India’s first inter-planetary mission Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM).
5. Annadurai has been listed among 100 Global thinkers of 2014 and tops the innovators list.
6. Annadurai’s publications and works are being widely referred by satellite operators all over the world.
7. He was awarded with Team Excellence Award from ISRO in 2007, Vivekananda Award for Human Excellence by Rama Krishna Mission, and Rajyotsava Award for Science from Government of Karnataka in 2008.etc.