India's Mars Mission: The Brains Behind Mangalyaan

# S Ramakrishnan:

He is the Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and is one of the mastermind in the development of PSLV and also responsible for development of liquid propulsion stages and their interfacing with vehicle and launch operations. He also holds the responsibility of building the PSLV that helped ferry the Mars Orbiter.

# Shivkumar:

 Being the Director of ISRO Satellite Centre, he developed the telemetry system for Mars Orbiter Mission. He is a native of Mysore, and was also responsible for designing the deep space communications equipment, and also was involved in the development of an antenna, which can communicate with satellites millions of miles away.

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