Muthayya Vanitha

Project Director Of Chandrayaan-2 | First Woman To Lead The Interplanetary Mission At ISRO

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Muthayya Vanitha is the Project Director of Chandrayaan-2. She is the first woman to lead the interplanetary mission at ISRO. She was promoted from Associate Director to Project Director of the mission. She hails from Chennai and is an electronics system engineer from the College of Engineering, Guindy. 

She has worked at ISRO for over three decades. She started as a junior engineer in hardware testing and development and has risen up  the ladder steadily. She has occupied several roles such as leading the Telemetry and Telecommand Divisions in the Digital Systems Group of ISRO Satellite Centre, and has been the Deputy Project Director for several satellites including Cartosat-1, Oceansat-2, and Megha-Tropiques. . Previously she has also managed data operations for remote sensing satellites.  In 2006, she received the Best Woman Scientist Award.

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