The Team That Guided 'Solitary Journey Through The Vastness Of Space'

FROM AN EXPERT in propulsion systems to the founding director of ISRO's Human Space Flight Centre, from a mission director who took charge after the failure of Chandrayaan-2 to an ISRO veteran of over three decades the Chandrayaan-3 mission saw the involvement of top talent to guide the spacecraft through its "solitary journey through the vastness of space". A look at the team behind the ambitious project:

- JOHNSON TA

P Veeramuthuvel, project director

Son of a former railway employee, Veeramuthuvel is a mechanical engineer with a PhD from IIT Madras. Hailing from Tamil Nadu's Villupuram region, he joined ISRO in 2014, and was made the project director after the failure of the Chandrayaan 2 landing mission in September 2019.

He has been in-charge of the overall mission of putting together the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in coordination with multiple ISRO centres.

Since the launch of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft by the LVM 3 rocket on July 14, Veeramuthuvel and his team of scientists have been at the mission control room at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network Centre, constantly monitoring the health and operations of the spacecraft on its 384,000 km voyage to the moon.

BN Ramakrishna, director, ISTRAC